A Tanta Corner Devoted to Vintage Hardware and Honest Modding
Two enthusiasts documenting console teardowns, capacitor swaps, and community mod projects, one bench session at a time from Tanta, Egypt.
Read the StoryWhat Guides This Blog
Not a shop, not a store — just a running log of hardware obsession and honest write-ups
Hands-On Documentation
Every teardown, recap, and mod project written up here has actually been opened, tested, and photographed on our own bench in Tanta.
No Affiliate Padding
We write about PCBs, board revisions, and mod kits because they interest us, not because a link pays out — recommendations stay honest.
Fan-First Voice
This blog is written for collectors and modders like us, not written to sell anything — the tone stays peer-to-peer, always.
Slow, Careful Research
We'd rather delay a post a week to verify a board revision or a rare variant than publish something we haven't confirmed ourselves.
From Readers of the Archive
Their piece on capacitor plague in early 2000s consoles finally explained why my board kept dying after reflow attempts. Saved me from ruining a rare unit I'd been chasing for months.
I sent them a photo of a weird PCB variant I picked up at a swap meet and they actually replied with the board revision history. That kind of detail is rare online now.
Read through their whole mod-log series on a shell swap project over a weekend. It's written like someone actually did the soldering, not copied from a forum thread somewhere.