TheRetroChannel | Commodore 64 repair and full restoration Part II - RF modulator recap, full clean, & keyboard repair @TheRetroChannel | Uploaded February 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
The second part in a full restoration. In this video we remove the RF modulator to replace the electrolytics, clean up everything including the keyboard, and fix a fault with the keyboard matrix, and then of course find another fault.

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0:00 Intro
1:22 RF modulator removal and recapping
6:16 Prettying up and heatsinks
10:12 Keyboard cleanup
14:13 Case cleanup
19:02 Keyboard reassembly and fault finding
23:15 Keyboard test program
25:11 Coming up next time
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Keyboard-test by Eastline Corp: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=98411
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