Well to be honest it's really not that difficult to repair most "broken" ps2's. My intrest is mainly in a slim PS2 with disc read error since I have a brand new lens from a slim PS2 that I managed to screw up a chip install on. Xbox's, well same thing pretty much... most are simple fixes... then...
Local Walmart. Manufactured 05-05-2006 I think. Don't quote me though... going from memory. If anyone is really interested in that I'll check the system.