Stationary game consoles like the Xbox are easier to repair compared to many other devices. They are mainly meant to just lie or stand next to your TV for years on end, so there’s no need to make them ultra compact, waterproof and glued-shut. That’s the reason most gaming consoles have high repairability scores with the Xbox Series X being the first...

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Perhaps you’re at the same point in your repair journey as me: I know my way around a screwdriver and spudger, have popped many a cable and swapped my share of puffy batteries. But whenever I would come across soldered connections, the ghastly anti-repair corporate rhetoric swirled in my mind: Contact a certified technician! Determined to overcome this...

If you want to dip your toes into engine repair, fixing lawn mowers is a great place to start. They’re simple machines and make for great stepping stones toward tackling more complex projects like cars and trucks. But in order to repair a lawn mower, you have to know how it works. The most common types of lawn mowers are riding mowers and walk-behind...

As someone born right at the tail end of the cartridge era, when I think of video games, I think less of the blocky gray cartridges and more of disks and downloads. Still, the very first console I ever owned was arguably Nintendo’s last cartridge-based handheld. And you never forget your first console. My Game Boy Advance might be a relic from 2001,...

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