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Minitel 5

Initial state: in bag with PSU, doesn't boot and makes a screechy noise There's some corrosion in the battery compartment

Taking it apart, the noise seems to come from the RL101 relay

Initial components inspection:

  • SW101 (for external RAM/ROM?) is corroded and stuck
  • F201 near the phone line is covered in white dust, bad plastic
  • MA101 has been replaced, ugly solder joints, no radiator and appears to be in the wrong orientation?
  • J2 plastic is covered in white dust, but the gold plated pins are fine
  • BT1 will need replacing, no corrosion but likely empty
  • Some corrosion on Q101(s heatsink)
  • Some ground plane corrosion near the RAM/ROM socket

Botches:

  • green wire to the left of MN201, same as the one pictures in the repo listed at the end

Parts references:

Work done

Replaced the following:

  • SW101: corroded, contacts broken inside
  • RL101: likely some premature wear
  • MA101: wrong part
  • F201: damaged plastic

Other repairs:

  • Clear plastic thingy used as a stop for the feet. Re-glued with cyanoacrylate
  • Battery contact corrosion cleanup. Should be coated with zinc or nickel but it's riveted with melted plastic. Good enough
  • Plastic wheel for contrast was not properly held to the potentiometer, due to a broken clip. Used some black hot glue

It now works properly :)

To do:

  • Replace coin cell. I think it's only used for the internal phone book/directory

Resources

-> https://github.com/clxjaguar/minitel5