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Ah ok.  For some reason I was trying to push it in, not pull it out.  Not my brightest moment...

BTW how on earth are you supposed to get those black 'rivet' things that hold the cardboard on back in? 

I just redid the flyback and the two connectors.  It seems ok now, but we'll see what happens when I leave it off overnight and then turn it on.

Yes.

Looks like my repair job on the analog board wasn't thorough enough.  I'm still getting occasional screen dimming/flickering issues.  Is there a picture that shows the most problematic solder points that should be inspected?  I did the connector areas but there must be something else.

Turns out my friend has a spare keyboard and mouse that he's going to let me have.  Given what everyone has said, I'll probably keep the SE out and keep the Plus as a spare.   My current spare is a Classic that even after recapping has an issue where the top right corner flickers and 'wobbles'...

I have a SCSI2SD as well but I have it in an external enclosure so I can swap it between my Macs.  I keep thinking I should put it inside the SE, but it's a pain to get out if I ever need to update the firmware or take the card out.  Plus the enclosure raises the height of the screen to a better...

Yeah that's what I figured.  So other than the look there really isn't any advantage.  I might just get that keyboard and keep it as a backup Mac just in case.  Then again after all the repairs I had to do on the Plus there's no guarantee that it won't die on me.

I have a perfectly good working Macintosh SE that I use as my compact Mac (mostly for gaming), but this week I was given a free Macintosh Plus.  The Mac Plus had issues that I fixed (resoldered the analog board, replaced the disk drive, replaced bad memory), and now it's up and running, but it...

I'm not sure actually.  It's a mid-range SE so it's not too early and it's before the Super Drive was added later on.  When I crack it open again I'll have to see.

After opening up my Mac SE I noticed that it still has the original soldered in battery in it.  Amazingly the battery still appears to work as the time and date settings are stored properly.  Eventually I know I'll have to replace it, but if it's not leaking is it safe to leave it in until it...

Sigh, looks like I'm not the only one with MacCaps issues.  I dropped off my Mac back in June and after several delays he said he was going to work on it but then he said he had a flood in his office when the ceiling collapsed and that my Mac had been sitting in water for a bit.  I had asked him...

Anyone heard from MacCaps?  I gave him my Mac back in June to recap and after several delays he said he was going to get to it but then stopped responding to emails. Did something happen to him?

I found Tiger on CD so I'm just going to use those.  I actually do own a copy on DVD so I think I'm ok. :)

I have a PowerBook G4 that has Firewire.  I guess I'd need to find a FireWire cable. Would a usb dvd drive work on the iMac?  I think I have one of those somewhere.