PickVidsBest Repair, teardowns & right to repair Videos
The 80 Repair, teardowns & right to repair videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 26 intermediate, 49 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Louis Rossmann, bigclivedotcom, EEVblog.
Genius Bar caught ripping customer off ON CAMERA by CBC News
Louis Rossmann reacts to a CBC News segment in which an Apple Genius Bar quoted a costly logic board and display replacement for a MacBook that had only a bent pin.
iPhone Air Durability test -- I AM SHOCKED
JerryRigEverything puts the iPhone Air through scratch, bend and durability tests and is surprised that the ultra-thin phone proves very tough.
Ben Heck's Nintendo-Playstation Prototype Pt 1 Teardown
A Ben Heck Show episode tearing down the Nintendo PlayStation prototype, one of the rarest consoles ever, with its owners Terry and Dan Diebold.
EEVblog #388 - Fake Apple USB Charger Teardown
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a fake Apple A1265 USB charger and shows the shortcuts that make it unsafe, such as poor isolation.
EEVblog #1341 - AMAZING $250,000 IBM Processor TEARDOWN!
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a 1991 IBM 9121 thermal conduction module from a System/390 mainframe, a 63-layer ceramic hybrid module with 2772 pins worth about $250,000, and demonstrates a BGA desoldering technique.
IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
A 47-minute restoration of a 1920s IBM computing cheese cutter, a machine with parts patented between 1901 and 1907.
My Framework Investment Should NOT Have Worked Out
Linus Tech Tips covers Framework's newly announced devices, including its first desktop, with comments from Framework's CEO about the company's design decisions.
Apple's soldered-in SSDs are engineered in the worst way possible
Louis Rossmann, an independent repair technician, explains why he thinks Apple's soldered-in SSDs are a poor design.
How most 16" Macbook Pros often kill themselves & why they're unfixable
Louis Rossmann explains why many 16-inch MacBook Pros fail and are difficult to repair, focusing on power design on the logic board.
Apple & Customs STOLE my batteries, that they won't even provide to AASPs.
Louis Rossmann describes US Customs seizing replacement MacBook batteries at Apple's behest, while Apple refuses to supply the batteries to authorized service providers.
Lobbyists imply right to repair helps domestic abusers, pushes racism and redlining!
Louis Rossmann reacts to lobbyist ads in the Massachusetts right-to-repair ballot fight that suggest repair access would enable domestic abuse and discrimination, and urges support for the campaign.
iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design - Teardown and Repair Assessment
Hugh Jeffreys tears down the iPhone 12 and assesses its repairability, focusing on how parts are serialized and tied to the device so swapping components between phones does not work.
iPhone 14 Pro Programmed To Reject Repair - Teardown and Repair Assessment
Hugh Jeffreys tests the iPhone 14 Pro and finds that swapping genuine parts between phones disables features, concluding that third-party repair is not really viable despite Apple's Self Service Repair program.
Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour
Linus Tech Tips water-cools a 2020 MacBook Air, tearing it down and showing the cooling design along the way.
DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows!
AvE tears down a broken Dyson Animal vacuum and its expensive replacement, criticizing the molded plastic, flimsy switches and overall engineering, with his usual profane commentary.
The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars
A Motherboard documentary on Rich, who buys wrecked Teslas, rebuilds them from salvaged parts and shares the process as Rich Rebuilds.
Brother Printer Genuine Toner Fix - Use Any Toner
A short walkthrough of a hack that tricks a Brother laser printer into accepting third-party toner by working around its genuine-toner check.
What does authorized repair do? Let's find out!
Louis Rossmann visits Apple Authorized Service Providers to see what repairs they can actually do.
iOS 4.0 on 3G iPhone (parody)
A short parody ad about iOS 4.0 running slowly on the 3G iPhone, made by a disappointed Apple customer.
Tearing Into Tesla's Model 3
Autoline's John McElroy visits Sandy Munro's shop, where a Tesla Model 3 is being prepared for a teardown benchmarking study.
Civilization starter kit | Marcin Jakubowski | TEDxKC
Marcin Jakubowski of Open Source Ecology presents his plan to open-source blueprints for 50 cheap, buildable farming tools, a "civilization starter kit".
How Apple authorized repair refurbishes Macbooks to fail again! GPU kernel panics
Louis Rossmann examines a 2012 MacBook Pro logic board that Apple refurbished for GPU failures and that failed again.
37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
A 37C3 talk on how a series of Polish electric trains stopped working after servicing by an independent company.
Apple under fire for allegations of controversial business practices
A CBC The National investigation into Apple's business practices, including undercover work on repair pricing and the battery slowdown scandal.