I finally finished working on the power actuator button thing for the Powermac 8500 and 9500! Been sitting on the mostly-finished model for a while now, but I recently found the gusto to polish it off. I've broken it into a few pieces to make printing a little bit easier, so in order to build it...
Thanks for the link! I came across that as well way back when and it was a tremendous help nailing down some of the smaller details. Incidentally, I actually made the caddy loading drive version of that bezel not too long ago as well. I haven't tried printing it out and I don't have a functional...
I don't have much to add except this is looking really quite impressive and I love how you salvaged the failed print. Looking forward to your next update!
If you can get pictures all around the badge by itself (maybe scan the edge on a flat bed scanner, if possible, to capture the outside curvature), I could give it a shot. We'd need to measure all the bits with with a caliper as well, but it doesn't look overly complicated.
Not a problem at all! I had the bezel pretty much modeled anyway, so adding the floppy features wasn't too much work. I'm just glad Glad it fits - thanks for being the guinea pig!
Posted this the other day in the thread specifically asking for one, but it should probably go here too. The quadra 800/840av PM8100/8500/9500 floppy bezel:
There is one caveat: I haven't actually printed it and tried it on a real life computer, because all my floppy bezels are still intact and...
Turned out to not be a whole lot of work, so here's a Quarda 800/840av Powermac 8100/8500/9500 etc floppy bezel! I haven't actually tried it on any of my machines (all my floppy bezels are intact), so I can't guarantee that it will actually line up with the floppy drive 100%. As far as I can...
The only problem as far as I know is the RF shielding is permanently (well removing it would be more or less permanent) attached to the inside of the panel, so doing a full body retrobrite immersion is out of the question unless you want to take that off. I suppose the paste style retrobrite is...
I haven't tried to paint any metal parts with it, but using that aforementioned spraypaint on my 3d printed parts resulted in a pretty close match to the paint on the metal case of my 9500. It wasn't exactly the same (maybe just a hair too light), so it might be fine for little tiny touchups...
@360alaska that's looking great! I'd love to see what it looks like installed.
I tried my hand painting the 9500 jaz drive bezel I cooked up a while ago, but I wasn't able to find exactly the same "smokey beige" Rustoleum, and sadly, it wasn't the right color. I was only able to source the...
@360alaska I don't think pb3623 was implying that you stole the model, just that it was of the same part and not the bespoke (and much rarer) caddy-loader bezel.