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Slow, plain restoration jobs from the shed, one machine at a time.

Nov 5, 2026 · 18 min
Recapping a board on a wet Tuesday
Old capacitors out, new ones in, and the smell of warm solder on a grey day.

Nov 4, 2026 · 12 min
What was in the box from the car boot
A damp field, a folding table and a box of cables, tapes and one hopeful computer.

Nov 3, 2026 · 15 min
Cleaning a keyboard that sat in a loft
Keycaps off, forty years of dust out, and every cap back in the right place.

Nov 2, 2026 · 11 min
Loading a game from cassette, the slow way
A tape recorder, a volume dial and four minutes of noise before the game starts.

Nov 1, 2026 · 22 min
Bringing a tube monitor back to life
A small tube monitor, a dim room and the first blue stripes in thirty years.

Oct 24, 2026 · 10 min
My checklist before I plug anything in
Nine things I look at first, and the one that saved a board last month.

Oct 17, 2026 · 13 min
Getting yellow plastic back to cream
What works, what does not, and why I now leave some cases alone.

Oct 10, 2026 · 9 min
A morning of sprites on squared paper
Drawing pixel pictures by hand, the way we did before the screen did it for us.

Oct 3, 2026 · 10 min
Three finds from a Sunday sale
A bargain, a dud and a surprise, and how I tell them apart.

Sep 26, 2026 · 8 min
Inside the shed: a tour of the shelves
Every machine waiting its turn, and the kettle that keeps the place running.
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Solder and Tea
A short letter from the shed every other Sunday: what is on the bench, what went wrong and what I learned.