Recent content by CosmicArchivist

The left-most insert connecting the screen and bezel assembly to the hinge has come loose from its roots, with its screw stuck firmly inside. With the Powerbook being designed the way it is, I can't disassemble it for other repairs until I take out that screw. I've tried grabbing the insert from...

Woah, I wasn't expecting to see anything more from this thread - thanks a ton, @flimshaw, I feel like your addition has saved me a whole lot of trouble. On the matter of thermal fuses, would there be any harm in wiring up a small array of 2 or 3 of them over the battery, or would that just be...

Is there any particular type of lubricant you'd recommend, or would any metal-on-metal grease (like white lithium) do the trick? I did look up braking grease like the last user mentioned but that seems to mostly refer to high-performance watchmaking greases that are well outside of my price range.

Yes, I did check the cables and the screen itself- that's all as it should be, though, I even did some blu-tack cable management re: the backlight, so that shouldn't be going anywhere it's not supposed to. And thanks for the tip, I'll try cleaning and re-lubricating the hinges

Yeah, it doesn't feel loose at all when I open it, the hinges themselves are extremely stiff- It also takes a lot of force to press the halves together at the back.

As is often the case with these machines, I've had to repair the standoffs connecting the back panel of my Powerbook's screen to the hinges. However, nothing I've tried so far has been able to help the fact that, when I close it, it still seems to be trying to prise itself apart at the seams, as...

That would be convenient, but unfortunately I don't have access to a 3d printer. To be clear, I don't plan on soldering the battery into the computer, only the leads of a connector I can plug a standard R/C battery into, like XT90 for instance. That way, the battery would still be removable, and...

I do have the original battery, but I'm intending to do it this way instead of opening and recelling it since it's very heavily leaked and chemical burns aren't part of my plan.

I have a Powerbook 180 in relatively okay condition and I've been meaning to rig up a battery for it for some time. As it stands right now, my plan is to find a 6V NiMH R/C battery that fits in the battery bay and has similar capacity to the original spec, solder some appropriate connectors to...

As what I can only assume to be the result of a dodgy repair job I made when I was a teenager, for a long time now my Powerbook 180 has been unable to read any and all floppy disks I give it. Fortunately, the drive isn't completely unresponsive - when a disk is inserted, the drive will attempt...

I find the exact same thing to be the case, and I also had the exact same experience re: malfunctioning RAM cards, as I briefly mentioned earlier. Of course, there unfortunately aren't any more RAM cards to remove at this point, so it's going be something else, but thank you for the little...

Thank you! Yes, the adapter is an original, and seeing as this unit lacks an internal battery (I'd actually been planning to improvise one soon) it's not out of the question that this could be what's wrong. It's been a long time since I last opened it, and I'll have to find another torx t8...

For quite some time now I've had a Macintosh Powerbook 180 that has worked pretty much perfectly, spare a malfunctioning floppy drive and a long-since removed PSRAM expansion card - I'd been using it more lately, and even typed up some short stories since I just found it nice to write on...