broken twin repair log, again

[kite200]

thanks to kris, i will have my hands on a broken twin famicom soon. ill be documenting the repair here like chimeyfolkbutter does. check back soon!

[Doc]

LOVE this stuff.

[chimyfolkbutter]

Cool!  I have been so freakin busy that I haven't touched my twin yet.

-CFB

[kite200]

Yeah chimey, you have the one thats seriously messed up right? do you think you'll be able to fix it?

[kite200]

ok, im working on it as we speak. im taking pics along the way and will post late tonight or tommorow

[kite200]

Alright!



Here's the twin




this is what you will need. some alchohol, etc



unscrew the screws on the underside of the twin.





oh my! dust! remove everything from the case. to do this, you will need to undo all the wires from the motherboard as well as unscrew the eject mechanism.



case with everything removed



freshly cleaned motherboard! use compressed air or a vacuum to clean these pieces.



everything back except the disk drive, replace the belt and then



begin testing!



loading a game



succsess! all done!

[Doc]

Ewww on the dust. Makes me want to look into my Famicom and Disk System to see if any dust is in there. 

[madman]

Was there anything wrong with the twin, or it just needed a belt?

[kite200]

nope, just a belt and now it works fine.

Yeah jc, the dust was more disgusting than in that pic. Seriously, it was terrible. however, the twin also has alot of vents where the dust can get in easily, I dont think it is as easy for dust to enter the famicom. In the case of the famicom disk system, there is no where the dust can enter aside from the disk slot, which would be pretty hard for dust to get in unless you put it in there yourself. So I think you should be okay on that, maybe there might be some in the famicom but on mine it wasn't that bad when I opened it to replace the controllers. Just remember that twin = dust mine.

[chimyfolkbutter]

Great job!

[Flash1087]

How hard is it to find replacement belts for Twins?

[kite200]

its the same as famicom disk system, the drive is the same i meanm its really easy just go on ebay there's a bunch on there right now they're ten dollars and shipping

[Flash1087]

I kinda figured they'd be the same, I just wanted to make sure. I've always wanted to attempt something like this.

[Switchstance]

This must go directly to the website.

[JC]

Thanks for the suggestion, Switchstance. We have two similar repair logs on the site, so I may take a pic or info from this one and add it to one of those, if relevant. I'll look into it.