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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!

Really looking good, nice work!

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!

@Zippy Zapp that is awesome! I'm so glad it works. Would it be possible to post a picture of it? I'd love to see how it turned out.

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...

@jonpurdyThat is awesome! I'd love to see what it looks like printed in resin. If you go down that route, please post pics! 

@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...

Nice!! Looks like a perfect fit - great work on the design!

@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. 

Awesome, thank you! Definitely gonna give that a try when I get the chance.

Can you post what that paint matches that color? I've been contemplating painting some of my parts, but I haven't been able to find a positive lead on paint color/brand/whatever.

Great work!

Thanks! I do have a 3d printer, but I just moved and I don't have it set up yet. There are a bunch of places on the internet that will do 3d prints to order, though I have never used them so i'm not sure exactly how they work. I think 3dhubs.com is pretty popular, but again, I have no personal...

If you have access to a 3d printer, I modeled the cdrom bezel part on and posted it to the forums over here. A 3d printed part definitely isn't going to be quite as nice as the original as far as how it looks, but the model is pretty close and has been working pretty good for me on my 9500 and...