You asked about my career in electronics. A series of random events. Plessey features a lot.

This rare Philips N1512 VCR hides a 50 year old manufacturing defect. Part 2.

This rare 1976 Philips N1512 VCR has been with the BBC. Part 1.

Fix a CRT television with a strange picture fault.

Doorstep Sony BVU-850P U-matic SP Beast. Part 2, can we fix it?

Doorstep Sony BVU-850P U-matic SP Beast. Can you spot the fault? (Part 1).

The FNIRSI HS-03 lightweight rechargeable soldering iron.

A variac is a variable autotransformer. Not a prop from a 50's sci-fi film.

Get tape out of dead Canon UC2000 camcorder

Max (11) ringing church bells. Yealmpton, Devon.

Stunningly fast internet speeds in South West England countryside? How could that be?

Sanyo MX315L boombox, exceptionally good cassette deck failed again.

Getting tapes out of four old camcorders, so we can digitise them.

Our tribute to Radio 4 Long Wave closedown.

High end 1975 cassette deck. Trio/Kenwood KX-910. Part 3 and success.

Sony U-matic VO-9850P, and how to use it for best professional results.

High end cassette deck from 1975. Trio/Kenwood KX-910. Part 2.

Super-high spec cassette recorder from 1975. Trio/Kenwood KX-910. Part 1

Professional video recorder cost £100,000 new. I smashed it.

Working on a Sony SL-HF100 Beta Hifi (Betamax) video recorder

Sony SL-C40 Betamax. Beaten by a Beta?

Sony Betamax SL-C40, component level fault finding required.

Fix a Sony SL-C40 Betamax video recorder

Sony Betamax SL-C40 x 3. Fix a common reel drive fault.

Two JVC S-VHS machines with TBC Timebase Correctors

Clean a CD laser with water.

Working on two vectorscopes, things didn't go to plan. Scary voltages.

Do not charge these batteries when in a product.

Something special about this boombox and it's not the boom.

Sony CCD-TR370E, JVC GR-D720EK, GR-D31EK, GR-DVL365EK Safeguard mode and CCD failure.

Going back to school. Waves and modulation for 9-11 year olds. Wish me luck!

An Amazon Echo Auto (Gen 1) is dead. Let's investigate.

How not to fix a HDV camcorder. Sony HDR-HC3 won't take a tape. Try to bodge it.

Working on Panasonic radios from 1961 and 1977.

Many decades between these Panasonic products.

Professional MiniDisc Recorder broke down. Can we fix the Tascam MD-301 MKII?

Stunning condition 1978 Philips N1700 video recorder, part 2. We need to talk urgently.

Perhaps the cleanest Philips N1700 video recorder in the world. Can we fix it?

£4000 Video capture and editing workstation build. Mistakes were made!

We fix the DVCPRO professional video recorder. Then disaster strikes.

Professional DVCPRO video recorder. Turn a small fault into lots of bigger ones.

Working for my competitors, get a tape out of a dead camcorder

Bumper episode of donations to the channel

Laser projector has failed, can we fix it?

Two very old video recorders. CVC Showcase, Ferguson 3V23 both get new capstan belts.

Tape extraction from a trashed Panasonic NV-EX3 miniDV camcorder.

Can we fix this super-rare CVC Showcase video recorder? Part 2.

Obscure video cassette format. Technicolor CVC Showcase. Part 1.

The ultimate Betamax. Sony SL-HF950 SuperBeta. So many faults. Part 3.

The ultimate Betamax. Sony SL-HF950 SuperBeta. Can we fix it? Part 2.

The ultimate Betamax. Sony SL-HF950 SuperBeta. Can we fix it? Part 1.

Use oscilloscope as vectorscope for professional video work. Tek TDS3VID.

The super-rare Beta HiFi duplicator. Low volume or a prototype? Let's try to fix it up.

Firewire IEEE1394 connection on a DVCAM deck. Digitising with Firewire.

Working on some Digital Timebase Correctors

Not any old Betamax video recorder. This is a really rare industrial machine.

Film of the May Fair celebrations in the Devon village on Yealmpton in 1966.

JVC BR-D85E video recorder, rare Digital-S / D9 pro format. Does it work better than the last one?

Pixstar Digital Photo Frame has died. Model PXT510WR02B.

A fantastic haul of test equipment and tools is given to the channel.