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    I was supergluing a cracked corner of a case... the superglue was sitting on the case for about 30 secs when I wiped the excess glue off and noticed brightening. I made a test 'J' next to it, waited 30 secs, wiped it off... Hmm...
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    I normally clean the area, fill it with JB Plastic Weld, let it fully cure/dry, and then use sandpaper (start with 120 grit, go to 240, then 400 <- I stop here as I don't want a gloss finish) to sand it to where it's completely even.
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    If the area was already smooth, that's the end of the filling process, but if the area had some texture, I'll try (keyword here being try) to recreate the texture by knicking it with a rounded pointy object (tedious process). But note this filling only works because I usually paint the machines I fix up and want to keep.
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    Unlike retrobrite, the super glue will take off logos printed on the cases. It's surprising how fast it works.. 30 seconds and the un-yellowed original plastic shows through. All the texture is still there so it's a light layer being removed by the glue. Not really applicable but interesting.
    Gonna try dropping by tomorrow… not sure if they will have anything.

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    Yup, Akihabara. Will be walking around half the day so will duck into any store that looks cool. Unfortunately won’t have time to head out of Tokyo. I don’t have a lot of room either so anything laptop size or smaller will work but no systems I think. Will mostly be browsing.

    Got to spend time at Map Camera today in Shinjuku which was fun.
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    If you like browsing more camera stuff, there is Camera Kitamura just behind the station in Akihabara, I got some nice Nikon lenses there. But I love just browsing around the electronic shops, I wish they still existed in my country!
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    One Power Macintosh total across two stores in Akihabara. Also went by a U&J Mac’s but unfortunately it was closed. Was fun browsing all the stores though.
    Odds aren't good given hard to find parts but gonna try...

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    Ok..hmm. :) I'll ping you once I get to the point where I need new new ones :)
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    Well, after recapping everything, it powers up to a blinking green light and then eventually a solid green light. I then believe it attempts to print a test page and the printer comes to life, but then it stops and the red jam light goes on. It feels like it's unable to suck in a page from the paper cartridge. Will need to debug further when I get some more time.
    Uhh.... LCD from a dead powerbook duo 280c which I scraped the polarization film off of (it was trashed). Finished recapping it and was testing it to see if I could see anything using a circular polarizer lens... but got this:

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    Kid telling me not to ask him to clean his desk when mine looks like this...

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    Testing a repaired PowerKey along with in the middle of recapping/repairing a Duo 280c and a mini dock.
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    You gotta be "kid"ding me...
    To be fair, that doesn't look messy. That's organized chaos right there.
    How'd the testing go?
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    PowerKey works.. there were a couple cracked solder joints and like others, the wires needed to be reseated for two of the four outlets.

    Regarding the Duo, about to start a thread on it. It's working, but still working on the keyboard and the battery.
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    I HATE DUO KEYBOARDS!!!!!!!!!! but the duos are addicting :cry:
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