 What's everyone's takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be looking at the PlayStation one and I'm going to share with you how to replace This disc drive right here the laser or whatever you want to call it I'm replacing the whole units and it's fairly easy to do so now I did buy this a while back in a lot for myself to resell This one here. I waited till the end because this parts is about a 20 to 30 dollar parts It actually cost me $30 for the one that I did buy but you can get them for around $20 as well Now I waited on it because this lot did include a couple ps3's a couple ps2's a ton of games And I decided to sell all of that first before I repaired this to sell it So now the time has come that I made a lot of profit on everything else So it's time to fix this and get this sold as well so to do so you're gonna flip it over here and All you need to do it is a Philips head screwdriver That is all you need. It is not like the ps3 or the ps4s that you need the security screws That is not back then so there is six screws that you do need to remove Before you can open up this simple console So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now once you have all six screws out. You're going to turn it back over And it should lift right off just like that So this is the unit we are going to be replacing right here and Look how simple of console that is that is in it's saying Really easily replace pretty much anything that you need We're gonna come and turn over here It does slide right off But as you can see there's two cables that are holding it on so first is this one here It's just a matter of pulling it up and Disconnecting it's in this one here. You're gonna gently pull up as well This one you're gonna be careful with because it is a ribbon at cable Just like that and you're gonna remove the unit like I just showed you so I'm gonna be replacing this entire units Now different ones that you buy you might have to keep these rubber bushings to be able to put on to the new one The one that I bought is the exact replica so I do not need to take anything off of this one here So here we go, it looks very much identical This one here like I said was the $30 one Which is why I wanted to wait until everything else was sold in the lots before I went and Purchased $30 for this unit. So let's go and put this on here Just like that I'm gonna take the ribbon cable right here, and you're gonna just slide it in gently In to the port there. You're definitely not going to want to Bend the cable at all so you're gonna want to be very cautious when plugging that one in and also when you were removing it You're gonna take the other cable here. You're gonna plug it back into the ports And just like that you have replaced the optimal drive The disc drive for the units. So now you're simply going to put the shell back on flip it back over and Put the six screws back in and there you have it once the six screws are back in it the optimal drive is Replace and it is in working order The only thing left to do for you is to test this unit Which I am going to do shortly off-camera But this is how you go and you replace the optimal drive the disc reader of the PlayStation 1 Really easy to use like I said the only thing that I didn't show in this video is depending on what you buy Those little rubber bushings that slide onto those pegs to hold it into place you might have to keep off your old one and Then put them on to the new one to be able to replace and slide it back in Properly so that is the only thing this here now that it is repaired I should be able to sell it for around 50 to 75 dollars Hopefully more on the higher end. It does come with the power cord AV cord one controller Two memory cards as well, and I am gonna be bundling with some games So usually when they're just by themselves in the area with sometimes just the power cords no controllers Or maybe just console only I can buy this for roughly $25 depending on if it needs any parts or anything if it is working if it is I should be able to sell it between 50 to 75 dollars 50 dollars if I have at least one controller and no games $75 if you bundle some games with it this one here. I do have Gran Turismo a Final Fantasy game and crash racing that I'm likely gonna bundle with it along with some other games And I'm probably gonna sell it and list it for around a hundred dollars That's what I'm expecting on it and it only cost me $30 for this part So like I said, you can get it for $20, but I did buy one for $30 that included the Feets the cable and everything else sometimes there you can get cheaper ones that don't include the cables and sometimes that's Cable is what is damaged and broken so you might as well buy one that has it all complete So this is how you go and replace the PS1 disc reader laser or optimal drive whichever you do call it I hope you guys enjoyed this video and hope this helped you fix your ps1. I'll see you guys in the next video Please take care. Peace