Mac SE - SE/30 recap service?

[mg.man]

I was just using "<" differently

I don't see any "<"... Anyway, I believe the key here is that (as with many things "early Apple") YMMV!!

 

[MrFahrenheit]

If you’re in Canada, I’d recommend @MrFahrenheit

Just to clarify this, and I hope this post can stop getting further activity (burying my prior replies): I DO NOT OFFER RECAPPING SERVICES.

DO NOT

Mr F

 

[Amiga of Rochester]

I just wanted to chime in and say thank you for those who mentioned me. I don't generally crawl forums. I am always available and usually livestream on my YouTube channel since I can't find time to make proper videos. You can always DM me

 

[MichaelLAX]

Just want to clarify on this post because I’ve received numerous messages lately on this topic:

1. I was testing the waters of recapping boards for people. I did a couple and decided to suspend doing it at all for others.

2. I no longer do this for people. I never offered a business/service on this, it was a trial and I didn’t like how it ended up. The stress of working on someone else’s board was too great for me, worrying about ruining something.

I did have someone ask me to recap their board, and when I ran into problems, I was blasted for ruining their original, owned from new, “baby”. I eventually got their board to work, but the damage was done. I never want to go through that experience again, so I decided to just no longer do it.

Again, if you’re looking for a “recap service”, I’m not able to do this for you. I never offered an official “service” as a business, I tested the waters by accepting a couple boards for recap.

Like Logan in Succession, if you want out of “recapping,” you need to find us a replacement service! Thank you.

 

[joshc]

Like Logan in Succession, if you want out of “recapping,” you need to find us a replacement service! Thank you.

Why? MrFahrenheit is under no obligation to find a service for you. As mentioned above Amiga of Rochester is available.

 

[MichaelLAX]

I was being facetious, as noted by the pop culture reference!

 

[bigmessowires]

I did have someone ask me to recap their board, and when I ran into problems, I was blasted for ruining their original, owned from new, “baby”. I eventually got their board to work, but the damage was done. I never want to go through that experience again, so I decided to just no longer do it.

Yeah, I've wondered about this too. Let's say you're running a recap business and you recap somebody's logic board, so you replace the capacitors, and it still doesn't work. Whose responsibility is it now? What if there are also dead chips or rotted PCB traces? The customer won't be happy if you return a non-functioning logic board to them, but it's not reasonable for you to spend hours of additional time chasing down further problems unrelated to the recapping. Even if the logic board is working, some customers will blame you for anything else that goes wrong with the computer for a year afterwards under the theory that you were the last person who touched it. "My floppy drive was working great before I sent the logic board to you for recapping, but four months later it stopped working. You owe me a fix." No thanks. I wonder how Amiga of Rochester handles this, or others who provide recapping service work for hire.

 

[Phipli]

Yeah, I've wondered about this too. Let's say you're running a recap business and you recap somebody's logic board, so you replace the capacitors, and it still doesn't work. Whose responsibility is it now? What if there are also dead chips or rotted PCB traces? The customer won't be happy if you return a non-functioning logic board to them, but it's not reasonable for you to spend hours of additional time chasing down further problems unrelated to the recapping. Even if the logic board is working, some customers will blame you for anything else that goes wrong with the computer for a year afterwards under the theory that you were the last person who touched it. "My floppy drive was working great before I sent the logic board to you for recapping, but four months later it stopped working. You owe me a fix." No thanks. I wonder how Amiga of Rochester handles this, or others who provide recapping service work for hire.

Yup, it's why I don't recap for people. The thought of the bad things that could / would happen is terrifying.

I don't, but if you did want to recap as a business it would make far more sense to buy machines that need recapping and sell them, rather than dealing with other people's computers. If one didn't work, it doesn't matter, worst case it is just spares for other repairs.

 

[MichaelLAX]

Yeah, I've wondered about this too. Let's say you're running a recap business and you recap somebody's logic board, so you replace the capacitors, and it still doesn't work. Whose responsibility is it now? What if there are also dead chips or rotted PCB traces? The customer won't be happy if you return a non-functioning logic board to them, but it's not reasonable for you to spend hours of additional time chasing down further problems unrelated to the recapping. Even if the logic board is working, some customers will blame you for anything else that goes wrong with the computer for a year afterwards under the theory that you were the last person who touched it. "My floppy drive was working great before I sent the logic board to you for recapping, but four months later it stopped working. You owe me a fix." No thanks. I wonder how Amiga of Rochester handles this, or others who provide recapping service work for hire.

It is very simple: You post a Disclaimer and have your clients sign a Release drafted to protect you.

Recapping is one step of perhaps many! And the client must recognize that from the beginning or just don't have it done.

I am an old dog and not really interested in learning unsoldering at this stage; but I have some legacy Apple electronics that does/will need recapping as time goes on.

I would love to find a recapper in California, but so far only Amiga of Rochester has been suggested.