Looking for a Blueray ribbon

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l was re-flowing my PS3 when I lingered too long over the ribbon(I was swithing hands on the heat gun) and it burned my ribbon. Does anyone know where to get parts for the PS3????
 
You need to buy a new PS3 and try to not open this one up :)
I doubt you could find a credible source this early in the years of the PS3 that sells specific parts. Maybe you could find a used broken one for sale or something?

The PS3 will probably never have a real beneficial reason to be opened up, atleast for a long time(mod chips, flip-tops). Therefore not too many people have tried which results in less broken PS3's w/o warranty(due to opening). Which is how companies were able to sell specific PS2 parts. Because they would buy all the poor broken ones for sale on eBay that didnt work and had no warranty because people who didnt know what they were doing try to open them up for modchips, fliptops and other cases and whatnot.

Its just not a good idea!
 
My PS3 is the 60 gig launch model, the warrantee has been up for quite a while now. My graphics processor has been going since that warrantee was up and mine has the blinkg red light of death, when it does this I have to pull it down to the board and reflow it. I do plan on getting the new one, but until then...:boggled: The PS3 is not all that hard to deal with as far as being nothing more than a computer built specifically to play games on. I build computers, tube amplifiers, and effects pedals. The innards of a gaming console aren't all that difficult to work on when they fail. every once in a while you can slip up and harm somethign, its just the way it goes, no matter how careful you are sometimes shiite just happens...
 
Thanks for the link. I've checked ebay time and again and hadn't found anything. I just stopped checking because it never turned anything up.
 
If you search for 'ps3 bluray ribbon' or 'ps3 bluray data cable' on Google, you'll get plenty of hits and shops that sell them. :)
 
why do you guys sound so surprised that there's still DIY guys out there when it comes to these consoles? a warranty only last a couple years from purchase, and only applies if you bothered to send in the warranty card, still have the receipt, and are the original owner.

besides Sony electronics are notorious for breaking down or having been rushed out, and I don't just mean video game consoles.

you shoulda just shut the heat gun off. good luck finding pieces.
 
why do you guys sound so surprised that there's still DIY guys out there when it comes to these consoles? a warranty only last a couple years from purchase, and only applies if you bothered to send in the warranty card, still have the receipt, and are the original owner.

besides Sony electronics are notorious for breaking down or having been rushed out, and I don't just mean video game consoles.

you shoulda just shut the heat gun off. good luck finding pieces.

Is this warrenty in US??
damn....

Here in europe 2 years on everything even if seller, company says not so.
Doesn't matter how many owners, + nothing to send in to get warrenty (maybe extended warrenty)
we don't need to have the original box.
Everything you need is the invoice.

some business try to avoid it by saying you need the original box, but that are lies.
This is European "Reglement" -> effectif directly
opposed to European "Directive" -> must be intergrated by member states in a certain time frame (2 years)



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There are plenty of shops. You are sure to find something, worst case get o broken one...

Good luck in the fixing
 
ibo in the Lux: in the states, there aren't many shops of the kind your thinking of outside major metropolitan areas. besides, most of them tell you to throw away the old and buy new instead of trying to fix things. this is a leftover from when the states made everything, and the term "made in Japan" meant throwaway junk...50 years ago.
 
We live in "disposable" world anymore. Gone are the days of things being made to last. Made so well that they can be repaired instead of discarded and a new one bought for $10-$15. Its even got to the point where the more expensive items...such asa $500 gaming console only last a few years. You used to be able to buy rebuild kits for starters and alternators on cars and rebuild them yourself on your back porch, providing you have the right tools at hand. Even electric guitars and amplifiers aren't made as well as they used to be. I don't buy new guitars anymore, with all the gaps, ill fitting components and the like even Gibson puts out crap nowadays. Amps become a crap shoot, even the $2000 jobs carry the same components and build quality of the lower dollar items. DIYers seem to be a dying breed anymore.

why do you guys sound so surprised that there's still DIY guys out there when it comes to these consoles? a warranty only last a couple years from purchase, and only applies if you bothered to send in the warranty card, still have the receipt, and are the original owner.

besides Sony electronics are notorious for breaking down or having been rushed out, and I don't just mean video game consoles.

you shoulda just shut the heat gun off. good luck finding pieces.

Or atleast just raised it a few inches while I switched hands!!!

ibo in the Lux: in the states, there aren't many shops of the kind your thinking of outside major metropolitan areas. besides, most of them tell you to throw away the old and buy new instead of trying to fix things. this is a leftover from when the states made everything, and the term "made in Japan" meant throwaway junk...50 years ago.

Anymore I almost prefer items made in Japan. I'v been a photogragher since I was 12( I'm 40 now) and the Japanese are the only people who really build a quality camera and lenses. Now adays when I look for guitars I look for the old Japanese made Fender Stratocasters, and Ibanez guitars. There are still great products made here, I love Eminence and Warehouse speakers, My rifles, and reloading equipment...made here. But most of the things we use on a daily basis like toasters, electric razors, folding tables, you name it, most of it is made in China, Indonesia, and places like that for pennies a day. Heck I'll even buy a Mexican made Stratocaster over the American made one anyday. It would be nice if we could rebuild our manufacturing base to the way it was even 20 years ago. One of the biggest reasons we won WW1 and WW II is we had the manufacturing base right here to build everything we needed and we never ran out of material, or ways to build things. If we had a war like WWII now, we would be screwed, we depend on third world countries to provide us with our everyday items, and there aren't enough factories, or vehicle manufacturing facilities to provide us withthe means to win. It pains me to say it, but we have grown weak as a nation.
 
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I have repaired my 60gb "launch" 5 times already, and still running. I bought an 80gb model back in August last summer, and my blu-ray drive just bit it. I called sony, but I can't find my receipt since it is still under warranty. I opened it since they quoted me $148 to fix it if I could not find the receipt. I did recover Fallout 3 from the drive but it is very much dead. Ebay lists new drives for ~$85 US new so I am debating whether to drop the $85 or go buy a new slim model and keep the receipt :dunce:
 
Anymore I almost prefer items made in Japan. I'v been a photogragher since I was 12( I'm 40 now) and the Japanese are the only people who really build a quality camera and lenses.

I dunno, Leica seem to make pretty nice cameras and lenses too. ;)
 
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