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Still some infrequent and minor twitching on my SE's video, so I took the final step* and recapped its ASTEC power supply. There was one small area that looked like cap ooze had been there. Now, the suspense begins.. either the video is now spot on, or after a long while it'll do it again. (* things like the flyback etc. are just out of my league, and the problem is too minor to risk those )

For a few days there, every Mac I own was up and running perfectly. Well, the Q605 still has some very faint digital noise ingress on audio, OK since that was a board with a lot of bad traces. But today the IIcx that had one corrupted ROM stopped chiming. Still boots with a ROM SIMM. Debugging..

I was able to fit a Cabletron Ethernet NIC into the SE FDHD - a bit tight with two floppies and an HDD in there. Had to cut some sheet metal from the HDD tray to get sane clearance. This was my final goal for this restored Mac, but after years of using it with serial PPP, it's fun enough with Ethernet that I may reconsider parting with it.