 There's one simple reminder parents should take every single time they deal with their kids toys Hey there njroute22.com here with another little vlog today today It's completely off the beaten path, but we're gonna talk about kids toys, you know stupid things like this Turtle with lights and I got remote control cars What I really wanted to talk about was This the first thing you should do anytime a toy isn't working right or malfunctioning before you throw it out Or try to fix it the first thing you should always do and we all know this but we forget it's put fresh batteries in it and See if it works then I've made this this mistake I haven't really made the mistake But what I normally do is I can tell if something is broken and I have fixed so many toys in this house By taking them apart all the screws and finding out what's wrong with and that means, you know There's usually a broken wire most most of the time It's a broken wire and it's a solder joint. It's usually called a cold solder joint that you know that the switch Is either busted or there's some sort of wire that usually connects to the battery pack that became Undone either becomes frayed kids drop these things over and over and even though they're pretty durable they They take a beating and eventually there's something's just going to give way and I fixed so many toys and saved a lot of money Most parents what they do is If it just doesn't seem like it's working they toss toss the toy I like to see what weren't what what went wrong with it and try to fix it myself there have been a couple toys that I did take apart and I did sort of find the error But it became just way way too much of a time-consuming a four-hour job to rewire and put 12 new solder joints I said it's cheaper and more time Effective to just buy a new one for $12, but if I can fix it in 15 minutes or less Then it's worth worth my time, but the key is here's an example. I had this little spinning Hamburger toy. It's really annoying, but the toy worked. It talked. He said oh, yeah, we're uh, I'm your spinning hamburger or whatever But it didn't spin so my first thought in my head was and this is before I Remembered and then the reason for this video was oh man. There must be some sort of switch broken inside That's not causing the motor to spin and I was all ready to Take the thing apart and fix the broken wire and Then a little light bulb went off in my hand like wait a minute now the audio Portion requires a lot less voltage and power than the motor So let me just double check to make sure and lo behold I put new batteries in and the things start spin spinning as you could see here So that saved me a lot of effort even though I took the time to get all my tools ready my pliers my screwdriver's my wire cutters my soldering iron. I was all ready the whole thing set up and Luckily, I didn't have to do it. The new batteries solved the problem and I was on on with my the rest of my day, but You know a lot of parents probably throw out their toys because they don't number one Put new batteries and they just assume it's broken and they toss it and number two They probably do put new batteries in and realize it doesn't work and they never even try to fix it It's not that hard. It's a very fun process to do to take things apart I'm sure if you've never done it before it could be a little bit of an overwhelming task Especially if you don't understand anything about electronics, but if you do understand about electronics There's just everything is a you know multiple pieces to a larger Puzzle and you just have to follow the dotted lines, you know the battery to switch To control it's usually really simple for a toy So that's it always check by putting in fresh batteries Not some batteries from a box open up a new pack of batteries and put it in and I would say a good chunk of time Your problems will be solved. That's it for today. Have a good week