What electronics have YOU fixed lately?

[TM86]

they were terribly unreliable.
local collage here required students to use them so at the start of every school year we would get a bunch of calls to buy them. Then a couple months later get the angry calls when they lost all their work.

You make it sound like the click of death was a bad thing.

 

[enine]

It was.
I lost track of how many calls from college students yelling at us, asking how we were going to recover their data, etc.

 

[VA7JHI]

One of my two drill batteries stopped working. I opened it up, and measured all five cells. One was very low compared to the others.

I pried the spot welds off and worked the battery out of the pack. (It was in the centre.) I worked a new cell into the pack, and spot-welded it to the old terminals.

I put the un-assembled pack onto my drill, and it worked!

I put the case together with the four original screws, and now it doesn't work. :-(