Color Classic Recap - my first time and success :D

[MarNo84]

Hey,

Yesterday I Just did my first SMD recap ever..with great success

Recently I got an beautiful CC - sadly in non working condition :-/

First look told me instantly that the caps were gone. Leakage all over the board...

Well..not much to do that evening so I started my first Mac recap adventure

Desoldering the old caps was more easy as I thought - including pad lifting... 4 Pads got lifted :-/

I could repair them the usual way using super mystic glue and a small soldering bridge

After 1.5 hours of fun I finally made it to the finish line it was already after 01:00 after midnight. Plugged everything in its place aaand - tadaaa the beauty came back to life

I will post an complete How-To, especially for soldering (smd) beginners with pics and description on my HP and here in this thread if someone is intersted?

Marcus

 

[mraroid]

what a clean looking board!  Great workmanship.  More pictures!

mraroid

 

[Juror22]

Kudos!

Great job on getting it working, especially with lifted pads (you might want to throw a few pics together for a tutorial on that)

I put together those little diagrams, when I recap a board as well, but yours are WAY more detailed than mine.

 

[MarNo84]

Oh thx now I feel blushed xD

I will put my detailed HowTo online the next days

These small pads - a pain in the **s to work with xD but not impossible.

 

[techknight]

Oh, those arnt a pain really. You can land a 747 on those pads compared to some of the stuff I work on today at my day job. 

 

[MarNo84]

Haha ok, if you say so, I don't envy with your job ;p

Like I said - at the end I got everything managed the way I wanted to

To be true, that flattened elko/ceramic elko things are much more pain to replace.

Ok, the only things that won't work on this CC are the internal HDD (System won't recognize it at all) and tha small ibterbal speaker makes cruel sounds (headphones work well) - these are the next parts to be fixed as soon I can find some spare time again.

 

[MarNo84]

Finally I'm very close to the finish line  

Replaced the internal SCSI Drive with an Apple LC 250MB Drive, switched the broken internal floppy (won't eject the disks anymore) with an spare drive out of an defective PowerMac 600 and disconnect that nasty broken internal Speaker - I will try to get these old external Apple Design Speakers for my Cube

Hah, the last goal is to reinstall a clean copy of MAC OS 7.1 - as soon I can find that special "InstallMeFirst" Disk in german language.

Marcus

 

[techknight]

Take a peek over at Macintosh Garden, they may have the disks/software you need for your language. 

 

[Johnnya101]

The drive might not eject disks because its either gummed up OR more likely the eject gear is broken. There are replacements for sale on ebay.

 

[MarNo84]

Hmm that's a worth try... the drive itself looks just fine and reads/writes disks without any problems..just the eject is broken/malfunction. For now, I just put it in "the less important projects to finish" Box