Electronics repair channels on YouTube - recommendations?

[SolderSucker]

Besides EEVBlog of course, do you have any favorite electronics repair channels on YouTube? For example:

Mend It Mark - only recently found this guy and love his channel - he's informative, entertaining and does some really nice work (https://www.youtube.com/@MendItMark )

Uncle Doug - always a pleasure to watch this guy work (https://www.youtube.com/@UncleDoug/ )

Mr Carlson's Lab - takes his time and goes into great detail (https://www.youtube.com/@MrCarlsonsLab )

and that's just three off the top of my head.

What are some of your favorites?

[alm]

CuriousMarc. Does some quite in-depth repairs in collaboration with others. Mostly vintage computers, NASA hardware and HP equipment.

The Signal Path (Shahriar), forum user Hugoneus. Repairs test equipment, and will usually go in into the theory of operations of the equipment he's repairing.

[Bud]

I can say which ones cannot recommend. Those youtubers who play overexcitement, make grimaces on the camera, do not mute the audio when aligning receivers with RF signal gen, who riducule the old equipment they are restoring and who do not clean dust from it before poking it with their magic screwdriver.

[themadhippy]

whilst not 100% repair ,big clive  for the trashier  side of things

[TERRA Operative]

* Glances sideways at forum signature...

[Black Phoenix]

* Glances sideways at forum signature...

That is shameless promotion, you know? 

[wilfred]

Jerry Walker does excellent videos mostly on older computer gear. He's doing an HP9845B computer at the moment. Has good educational content about machine operation.

Branchus Creations might be worth a look if older Macintoshes are your thing.

[artag]

I've enjoyed many of the streams listed above, especially Curious Marc (and Applied Science, though that's not so much repair).

However, recently I've been watching shango066, who mostly works on old TVs and radio receivers. They're not something I've looked at for years and don't really want to start on again, but his perspective on them - he's mostly doing a fast debug to find out if theyre worth properly restoring - and the history he knows make the videos interesting.

[Faranight]

NorthridgeFix

[AVGresponding]

12voltvids is pretty good for AV stuff

[Sredni]

Micheal Dranfield has a few interesting videos. IIRC he wrote articles for one of those tree-killing paper magazines.
@michealdranfield7140

[TERRA Operative]

* Glances sideways at forum signature...

That is shameless promotion, you know? 

I know, but I do think it is a very good channel that everyone should watch, if I say so myself..... 

[HwAoRrDk]

IanScottJohnston - repairs a lot of test equipment, also frequents this forum.

Marco Reps - also repairs test equipment from time to time, some metrology stuff too.

FeedbackLoop - mostly A/V and test equipment repairs.

JoulesperCoulomb - a good back-catalogue of videos repairing 8-bit computers, and some test and audio gear. Hasn't posted any videos in a few years, though. His presentation style reminds me of 1980s Open University programs, if anyone knows what I mean.

Adrian's Digital Basement - 8/16-bit computer repair.

[TomKatt]

I'll probably get some crap for this, but I find Shango066's channel very entertaining.  The focus is primarily on getting old tube televisions, radios and hifi systems that have been sitting out in the weather for decades running well enough to watch or listen (as opposed to restoration).  He does this with a bare minimum of equipment, and often tests capacitors by running an audio signal through them and judging their health by the frequency filtering listening to the amplified signal.

Will you learn electronic theory? No.  Will you be entertained? Yes    That said, I did pick up a few things watching him work on transistorized radios.

EDIT - seconding Mr. Carlson, CuriousMarc and Adrian's Digital Basement.  +12voltvids 

AvE is also a hysterical smart guy, tends to deal with the mechanical side of electrical stuff.

[AndyC_772]

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCod3r/videos

Fixes games consoles commercially. He's knowledgeable, methodical, uses the proper tools for the job, and workmanship is to a high standard.

[TomKatt]

Just noticed - nobody has mentioned Louis Rossmann?  Granted he's become a bit more social/political commentary than just Macbook repairs, but still pretty good and an advocate for Right To Repair.

[TERRA Operative]

AvE is also a hysterical smart guy, tends to deal with the mechanical side of electrical stuff.

He was good until he went into the anti vax, covid conspiracy rubbish.

[TomKatt]

AvE is also a hysterical smart guy, tends to deal with the mechanical side of electrical stuff.

He was good until he went into the anti vax, covid conspiracy rubbish.

Yeah, I've not watched him recently.  That's too bad.  You never really know people you don't know.

Next thing you know, Scott Adams will say something offensive 

[TERRA Operative]

I'm waiting for the day the scandal breaks were we discover that Dave actually uses a teleprompter.

Now that would be something... 

[Black Phoenix]

* Glances sideways at forum signature...

That is shameless promotion, you know? 

I know, but I do think it is a very good channel that everyone should watch, if I say so myself..... 

And you keep going... You really have no shame as a person you know...

[MathWizard]

I can't remember how much repair John does, but he does some nice audio hobby stuff and more,
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnAudioTech/videos

[Black Phoenix]

There is one who is starting basically but owns a ton of good equipment:

https://youtube.com/@pitushi




 

[Vovk_Z]

* Glances sideways at forum signature...

I'm subscribed yet, btw. 

[edpalmer42]

This needs to be a sticky!!!!

To add to the list:

Kerry Wong - Reviews, Projects, and Repairs
Glasslinger - Mostly vintage repairs, high voltage, build your own nixies and tubes (!!).  A bit eccentric  , but interesting

.... and in a class by himself ....
PhotonicInduction  Yeah, I know, but c'mon, you know you want to ... 

[SolderSucker]

This needs to be a sticky!!!!

I fully agree. Who can we contact to make such a request?

Also, another channel that I like:

Buy it Fix it:

https://www.youtube.com/@BuyitFixit

He does assorted consumer electronics repairs and sometimes other things (such as a mechanical issue in his tumble dryer).

[nightfire]

Well, in addition to the already mentioned channels, I sometimes like to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/@LearnElectronicsRepair  - some oldschoold methods for diagnosis, mostly with an old Fluke 77
https://www.youtube.com/@electronicsrepairschool  - also some classic methods for diag of issues, with good explanations

[andy3055]

https://m.youtube.com/@w2aew

Alan is great.  He has some clips on basic stuff and all the way to using scopes and other test equipment and how to use them for different things.
Very informative stuff on his back to basics series. I believe he is ex Tectronix.
Mr. Carlson is great as well. If you join his Patreon page, you get access to test equipment he designs. Great stuff.

[carpelux]

Electronics Old and new by Manuel Caldeira

https://www.youtube.com/@electronicsoldandnew/about

Lots of restaurations on tube radios and some good test equipmet projects.

[Howardlong]

Mend It Mark - only recently found this guy and love his channel - he's informative, entertaining and does some really nice work (https://www.youtube.com/@MendItMark )

Agreed, his channel popped up a few days ago in my Youtube feed.

It's really well produced, and I have no idea how he manages to chuckle all the time, and keep his perma smile. I wasn't sure if I'd tire of it, but I've found quite the opposite. It's total nerd entertainment. He has a great workshop too, with a good proportion of his TE being middle aged if not older, showing that you don't need the latest gear to be productive.

I think I might suggest that he invests in soldering tweezers for the SMD work he does.

His biggest crime (tongue deeply embedded in cheek) is he still uses that manky old solder sucker: I haven't used one of those for 30 years!

I find his videos highly entertaining and educational, but then I am a total nerd.

[alm]

One that I recently found, I didn't see posted here before, and quite like for his in depth repairs, is Martian Tech. Mainly test equipment and vintage computers. I guess they only have vintage stuff on Mars
https://youtube.com/@MartianTech

[JohanH]

DiodeGoneWild has special humor and lives up to his name.

One not yet mentioned is also NFM with many repair videos.

Androkavo has these super educational soldering videos.

Defpom wasn't mentioned yet. Has some good repair videos.

SDG Electronics is your favorite forum solder equipment tester. Has many some repair videos as well.

[fenugrec]

As long as we're ok with self-promotion... I have a handful of repair videos up https://www.youtube.com/@fenugrec5697/videos , probably ranks me in the bottom 1% of the barrel - fine with me, just sharing less-common repairs.

Not everybody has Shariar's luck and buys some busted-up TE where the only problem is a bad N connector or disconnected harness : ))

[HwAoRrDk]

SDG Electronics is your favorite forum solder equipment tester. Has many repair videos as well.

I'm not sure what your definition of "many" is, because Steve's done only a handful of repair videos in the last few years. While his channel is excellent, Steve doesn't really do repairs; his channel is mostly focused on circuit design and build, as well as equipment review.

[nigelwright7557]

I watch north ridge fix a bit.
In the end it gets a bit same old thing.
He doesnt often use circuit diagrams but more of a look for damage, test power mosfets for shorts.
He is very skilled at fixing ripped connectors with patches.

[JohanH]

I'm not sure what your definition of "many" is, because Steve's done only a handful of repair videos in the last few years. While his channel is excellent, Steve doesn't really do repairs; his channel is mostly focused on circuit design and build, as well as equipment review.

Thanks, corrected.

[SolderSucker]

Defpom wasn't mentioned yet. Has some good repair videos.

Just had a look at some of his videos - great stuff, have subscribed. Thanks for the recommendation.

[vk6zgo]

I'll probably get some crap for this, but I find Shango066's channel very entertaining.  The focus is primarily on getting old tube televisions, radios and hifi systems that have been sitting out in the weather for decades running well enough to watch or listen (as opposed to restoration).  He does this with a bare minimum of equipment, and often tests capacitors by running an audio signal through them and judging their health by the frequency filtering listening to the amplified signal.

Will you learn electronic theory? No.  Will you be entertained? Yes    That said, I did pick up a few things watching him work on transistorized radios.

EDIT - seconding Mr. Carlson, CuriousMarc and Adrian's Digital Basement.  +12voltvids 

AvE is also a hysterical smart guy, tends to deal with the mechanical side of electrical stuff.

Sorry, I find shango066 intensely annoying.
He makes comments which are technically wrong, blunders around & more by blind luck than anything else, "sort of" fixes things.

[vk6zgo]

JOSE V. GAVILA - EB5AGV doesn't seem to do videos, but his website is excellent.
He describes his repairs to ham radio stuff, test equpment, & some other things.
His TE collection is worth looking at in itself.

[gamalot]

A girl who knows how to use a soldering iron properly

https://www.youtube.com/@FazioElectric 

[unknownparticle]

learn electronics repair

Self explanatory!  The guy runs an electronics repair business, in the Canaries I think (!!), repairs a wide spectrum of equipment and devices, builds projects, reviews the odd equipment, does tutorials on repair techniques, hints and tips, etc, etc.

mend it mark

repairs a wide range of equipment, from valve to the latest gear, good presentation style, no blathering or messing about, very experienced guy, has a great array of test equipment!

[tautech]

Our member Defpom:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDefpom/videos

Likes collecting old TE and fixing it for himself or sale.
His livestreams and chat can be quite interesting.

[paulca]

+1 for Mend-It-Mark

[Neepa]

There is also xraytonyb: https://www.youtube.com/@xraytonyb

Mostly does audio repairs. Hour long deep dives like Mr. Carlson with some vintage test equipment refurb on the side. Also some tutorials from time to time like receiver alignment. Yt strictly is a hobby for him. As the name implies a guy owning an Medical Equipment/Xray machine service company.

[Shock]

Guys there is already a large sticky list of electronics related youtube channels in the "other blogs" forum. Ez24 is not actively posting at the moment. FanOfeeDIY offered in the past to maintain it if required. Perhaps you should be posting and adding the new ones to the list there.

Electronics related youtube channels:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/other-blog-specific/a/

Repair related Books/Magazines/DVDs:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/repair-and-service-books-magazines-dvds/

[SolderSucker]

Here's another great channel to add to the list:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThatElectronicsFool

[amyk]

Those who watch 12voltvids will probably also be interested in https://www.youtube.com/@norcal715 - mainly AV equipment repair.

[armandine2]

.. not that I'm a computer person [I'm not] but I like Adamant IT and Paul Daniels, not sure why these two - but they seem to enjoy it.