this video is sponsored by PCBWayyy. hello chip dippers
welcome to retro recipes now you might remember the time that we introduced
Ashleyfractic to the Amstrad PCW "this thing doesn't have a mouse" A what? "okay so
I'm Ashleyfr.act!" but there may be something you didn't notice because I
sneakily edited around it or sped up the footage to skip past it there it was did
you catch that let's slow it down
OOP still too fast slow down again it's like uncompressing a zip file this but
notice she's having trouble getting a space between those words "Whack that space bar" hear
that? "Whack that space bar". And that was because the spacebar has a
fault you can see it here she presses it once doesn't register a space so she has
to press it again more centrally with both her fingers. *high pitch sneeze* Bless you! and she gave up
on the spaces all together at the end there "insert?" "insert." okay now I know you
miss Ashleyfractic since she quit her job at Walmart unfortunately she's been
completely slammed with double shifts at her new job and studies but we've left
the invite open for her to come back anytime
having said that before she did leave Walmart I did pop in and ask if she
had any ideas for fixing that space bar Any ideas Ashley? Is it
plugged in? Yes it's plugged in. Is it turned on? yes it's turned on. I know, try a Perifractic hammer repair!
Well I suppose it did work for me that one time
holy *censored* this time I think his screwdriver would be more appropriate
Do you have Phillips screwdriver? I do but you have to give it back to him. but as luck would have
it Ladyfractic has been taking apart
computers since she was a kid and better still I don't even have to leave the
house to film her so let's hand this keyboard over to her
and grab a drink with Ladyfractic at the space bar
Vanna White can I get a finger tinkle thank you hmm so I've been told that the
look at that space bar it's not functioning so the problem is... here is
the space bar and underneath we have these little hooks and the hooks plus
the springs create a tension which allows it to bounce back right here is
the bar that hooks on to the bottom of the space bar okay so believe it or
not I have repaired something just like this when I was a lot younger I think it
was a Dell something or other it was one of the first computers that I ever had
and on the space bar on the ones that aren't this vintage the bar would come
all the way across on the outside and you'd have to simultaneously clip it in
to the key at the same time this one is a little lower it's actually inside so
we have to find a way to get it to attach and clip in which seems
impossible but I'm sure someone said nothing's impossible "Nothing's impossible!" There ya go!
I don't often threatened my assistant but do you want to die I almost had it
too I was going that way
let's do something easier you sure you can't do this from the
bottom it seems almost impossible to hook this on to that from the outside so
I've tried tinkering around by you know fishing in holding it up trying to get
it to catch but you just can't because of the way that the holes are set up
plus the way this has to plug in it's just not possible so we're going to try
to go in the bottoms up
who know in the last time these screws were taken out this was built in early
1987? 1983? I'm sure it'll fill in right here
I just need a longer one that doesn't have that thing in the way never mind
we're gonna make big efforts not to lose any of our screws. That sounded like the
right number all right so here's the back of our keyboard and since we don't
need this right now, put it on... fleaBay... She's gonna flail... we actually have made very
little progress because if you look at the back this is still here so you
actually all right let's give it a clean on both sides now we've got our
electronic duster don't put this in your eye this is what happens when you eat
and drink over your computer or worse but I'm very very guilty of
spilling many drinks on my keyboard especially when I was younger now on my
laptop which is a Mac has a keyboard cover
now we could do a deep clean and take off all the keys and get all the let's
assume it's hot cocoa because I know who owned this does
not drink coffee but that's not we're here for today
that is for another day
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because as we all know PCB stands for printed... Buhbuhbuh!
Puppyfractic's chewed bones! look it's gross gross
very gross
handy-dandy pushy hand *straining noise* son of a
mother it's called physics Oh gross all right hold your breath
you can all breathe again wait hold your breath you can all breathe
again so here is our spacebar *dog sneeze* - bless you - put the springs spacebar goes this way
and it insert it like that flip it over there is our little metal bar I pulled
it out of this right here so now as I let go we did it now we just put this baby
back together bottoms up I am gonna make that a thing
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and there we have it folks or as I like to say
Round of a-paws! and I'm going to hand this back to Perifractic, he's gonna
test it even though I know it's gonna work and *dog burp* She burped right in my face! That was her? I thought it was you! Bye guys! *Crashing*
He has got to learn how to catch better. Well thank you so much to Ladyfractic for her help in
hopefully repairing this now for the ultimate space bar test
let's try recreating the retro recipes space invader logo on that machine
and it passes with flying colors or flying green-screen
I'll be back soon thanks for watching subscribe below and cheerio
as its filthy might as well clean it.
Out of these. Ow! Babe! Got me right in the eye! Oh sorry I sure did!
hello chip dippers...? Ow! Oop, bye