PS3 Super Slim Teardown, Clean, New Battery & Thermal Paste - Full Beginner's Guide
3.3K views · Mar 26, 2026 · Gaming
Comments · 30
@DBofficial125 · 6 months ago · pinned
The first video from my Retro Maintenance series! These are designed to be very basic, ultra detailed step by steps that won't gloss over any part in the way many other guides do. Be sure to subscribe for my Retro Recall, Retro Rewind, Retro Mods, Retro Reviews and many other series we'll be doing.
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@lockefaire · 3 days ago
Thank you for this! Just bought a cech4301 superslim off ebay and im really hoping its still running well and cool and i wont have to do this quite yet cause it overwhelms the hell out of me, but I am definitely gonna bookmark this video to have in my pocket when I need to do it!
@NicolayGalvis03 · 6 months ago
Literally made my clean up and maintenance so much easier today.<br>Thank you , great vid
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@GoatedAlexander · 2 months ago
I literally love you so much man this video literally helped me so much 😭😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥 I usually never comment on any videos but my appreciation for you making and taking your time with this is unfathomable 😭😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥 I honestly would’ve not had the guts to take mine apart like this if it hadn’t been for you making this I really really appreciate that you take the time to show everything properly instead of a bunch of cuts all over the place like all the other guides to make it more “engaging” I really really appreciate how everything is so well shown and explained This helped me an unfathomable amount thank you so much man😭😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥 And also a great tip I found along the way in case you should do this again or anyone else reading this thinking of taking theirs apart I discovered that you can actually just keep the blue-ray ribbon in the disc reader itself the entire time and only remove it from the motherboard if you just move it a bit to the side for a moment and take the power supply out first and then only remove the ribbon from the motherboard so you don’t have to deal with tricky part of getting it back into it again and only the motherboard itself 🙂 Thank you so much again man you are literally so awesome I hope you have an absolutely amazing week!!!!!! You are very much appreciated 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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@noname-jt6kl · 5 days ago
I don't at all understand why the front panel is so much harder to get off than the back one and basically always ends up breaking something
@praetorio · 3 weeks ago
Your link for the silicone mat goes to a camera
@tyleraronne473 · 5 months ago
Not that you will probably do this again, but the step that gave you trouble took me 30 seconds. I just went from the bottom in stead of the top using the ifixit splooger/pry tool and I think maybe it just needs firm metal versus the plastic, or length, etc. Thank you for your video! VERY helpful, used this to replace my laser.
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@OliveGal · 6 months ago (edited)
Wow<br>I thought this'd be more popular<br>Very yummy video!!!
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@iulianparaschiv4323 · 1 month ago
Thank you!
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@drazicholmes7983 · 6 months ago
Awesome bro
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@markusbomke · 1 month ago (edited)
I have the same model. My model also have only wired Lan, if I remember correctly the eliminated the wlan to save a few bucks.
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@markhovscrch4050 · 4 months ago
Do you mind explaining those weird thermal pads on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urFdR9DbB6Q&t=1301">21:41</a> on heatsink stickinf on fan?
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