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    Started out DIY - then moved onto woodworking and now I'd say I'm semi professional. Made a couple of furniture pieces and took a commission or two. At the moment we're busy renovating our whole house (I ripped everything out besides the door and window frames) and I'm doing basically everything myself.

    Busy building new kitchen cabinets now - it's not too difficult, just boring. Looking forward to making the doors and drawer fronts as that's the part you see and where you can apply a bit more creativity

    If you think gaming is an expensive hobby you should try woodworking. As that one joke goes: my biggest fear is that if I die my wife will sell my tools for what I told her they were worth

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    Im jealous of people who can DIY.
    I have tried to sort things out so much in my life but always make a monumental stuff up somewhere along the line.

    I have always said "I am Mr Fuck It Up not Mr Fixit"

    I have just rrecemtly learned how to put a PC together and I got my kids room sorted before he was born but that took me 6 months. I am still stumped with floating shelves. Where the hell are the instructions???

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    Repaired the lCD in my Speedometer cluster during the week, it was nerve wrecking I posted everything at audi-sport.

    Audi Dont repair these, they only sell these clusters new at R22 000 ish excluding installation and coding.

    i've had the screen in a box for quite a few months already but i was just scared to take on the challenge also ordered a soldering air gun (needed to remove the old lcd ribbon)

    This is how it looked





    This was the condition of my 1st screen that came it was more cracked up then it should be


    eventually ordered another one and installed it during the week, this is the first time im actually doing something like this



    cleaned up the contacts



    I am actually surprised i got it right the second time (1st time some solder was touching between the contacts and the lcd was just blank)

    i also bought some ice white leds for the cluster but im not ready or confident enought to take on that challenge yet

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    also picked this up




    Front shocks
    Front & rear Brake pads
    shock mounts
    poly front anti rollbar bushes
    front wheel bearings
    and some matte black caliper spray

    hopefully i will have that installed soon

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    Oh hell no. Unless you're talking about software and graphic design, then yes. Or configuring home network / streaming setups.

    Or felling trees. I felled my own trees recently and it was fun. And 2 were of the Acacia family. I had wounds all over my arms to prove it.
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    Recapped a friends motherboard this weekend, it had cheap electrolyte capacitors that were failing.

    also repaired 2 lcd monitors

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dohc-WP View Post
    Recapped a friends motherboard this weekend, it had cheap electrolyte capacitors that were failing.

    also repaired 2 lcd monitors
    Perhaps you'll know this: When a laptop's monitor goes, how hard is it to fix that if you've got basic soldering/troubleshooting skills? I've built circuits before, and soldered up a voltage divider literally 4 minutes ago, but I'm sceptical if it's worth me even opening the thing up.. Especially since I'm actively using it as a headless server.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dohc-WP View Post
    Recapped a friends motherboard this weekend, it had cheap electrolyte capacitors that were failing.

    also repaired 2 lcd monitors
    I built a computer from scrap parts recently, also required new caps on the motherboard and in the PSU.

    Fun when it boots up and as an added bonus my wife now has something to do when my playstation is hogging the tv

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    Quote Originally Posted by Avatar View Post
    Perhaps you'll know this: When a laptop's monitor goes, how hard is it to fix that if you've got basic soldering/troubleshooting skills? I've built circuits before, and soldered up a voltage divider literally 4 minutes ago, but I'm sceptical if it's worth me even opening the thing up.. Especially since I'm actively using it as a headless server.
    depends if its led or lcd, if its a normal lcd screen then usually its just the inverter that fails, that normally located just under the lcd if u remove the front panel from the screen.

    normally you can just google the inverter model number on ebay and find one on there. if its an led monitor then the problem can be deeper sometimes on the motherboard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dohc-WP View Post
    depends if its led or lcd, if its a normal lcd screen then usually its just the inverter that fails, that normally located just under the lcd if u remove the front panel from the screen.

    normally you can just google the inverter model number on ebay and find one on there. if its an led monitor then the problem can be deeper sometimes on the motherboard.
    Thanks, that gives me a nice starting point! Guess what I'm stripping this weekend!

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