ArmorAlley
Well-known member
Hi all,
Over the Christmas I decided to upgrade my PB 540c. I have a 16MB card to replace the 8MB card and a SCSI2SD PowerBook card to replace the 320MB 2.5" SCSI drive. Neither of these need replacing (12MB is fine for System 7.1.1 and 320MB is more than big enough for the games being played on it. It's not even all that loud.).
While following the iFixit guide, I think I broke the little clippy things that hold in the keyboard strips and I have broken the plastic doodah that holds down the RAM board.
I should know better. This is 26 year-old plastic. I have 2x PM8100s with broken bezels to testify to plastic of this era.
However, I am not here to moan (although I would like to go outside and give off a wild barbaric yawp). We need an 'I could just cry...' forum category - a forum to mirror the joys of conquest with the misfortune of postage, the arrogance of inexperience as well as the ravages of time.
Instead, I would like your opinion and this may fall into the damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don't-category of questions:
Should I attempt to take out/replace the PRAM battery?
Ordinarily, I would just do it. I've had exploded batteries in a IIci and a IIsi (sniff) and I should know better to have stored them with the batteries left in. I have spare ½AA 3.6V batteries that are reasonably new (I bought them in 2014). I don't even mind so much not being able to turn on an old Mac with the keyboard. PRAM batteries afford little luxuries, but my IIci with damaged motherboard is not worth it.
Now, I'm fairly sure that more plastic pieces will break when I try to dissemble it, especially the bezels.
There are surely members who have taken 500 series apart recently and know firsthand in what shape the plastics are in.
What is your opinion?
Thanks everyone and I would like to wish you all a peaceful new year.
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Over the Christmas I decided to upgrade my PB 540c. I have a 16MB card to replace the 8MB card and a SCSI2SD PowerBook card to replace the 320MB 2.5" SCSI drive. Neither of these need replacing (12MB is fine for System 7.1.1 and 320MB is more than big enough for the games being played on it. It's not even all that loud.).
While following the iFixit guide, I think I broke the little clippy things that hold in the keyboard strips and I have broken the plastic doodah that holds down the RAM board.
I should know better. This is 26 year-old plastic. I have 2x PM8100s with broken bezels to testify to plastic of this era.
However, I am not here to moan (although I would like to go outside and give off a wild barbaric yawp). We need an 'I could just cry...' forum category - a forum to mirror the joys of conquest with the misfortune of postage, the arrogance of inexperience as well as the ravages of time.
Instead, I would like your opinion and this may fall into the damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don't-category of questions:
Should I attempt to take out/replace the PRAM battery?
Ordinarily, I would just do it. I've had exploded batteries in a IIci and a IIsi (sniff) and I should know better to have stored them with the batteries left in. I have spare ½AA 3.6V batteries that are reasonably new (I bought them in 2014). I don't even mind so much not being able to turn on an old Mac with the keyboard. PRAM batteries afford little luxuries, but my IIci with damaged motherboard is not worth it.
Now, I'm fairly sure that more plastic pieces will break when I try to dissemble it, especially the bezels.
There are surely members who have taken 500 series apart recently and know firsthand in what shape the plastics are in.
What is your opinion?
Thanks everyone and I would like to wish you all a peaceful new year.
aa