I've spent a good part of the last year of weekends restoring my Color Classic Mystic. I am calling it done for now and all is working except for the stereo mod which works but I am not yet getting full volume from the added 2nd speaker.
When I acquired the machine someone had already installed the LC575 board but it wasn't working and wouldn't boot. This was my first Mac and I had to learn a lot along the way. Much credit to all here @ 68kmla!
The following is a list of what has been done. This is not meant as a brag but a celebration since I put so much time into this. It was a labor of love since I could never afford a Macintosh back in the day.
When I acquired the machine someone had already installed the LC575 board but it wasn't working and wouldn't boot. This was my first Mac and I had to learn a lot along the way. Much credit to all here @ 68kmla!
The following is a list of what has been done. This is not meant as a brag but a celebration since I put so much time into this. It was a labor of love since I could never afford a Macintosh back in the day.
- LC575 motherboard cleaned and re-capped with all new smd capacitors.
- Full 68040@33mhz CPU installed with heatsink.
- 128 mb simm installed so that total mem is now 132mb.
- Analog board recapped completely with 105c Nichicon high-quality capacitors with all caps the same size and diameter as originals. Picture is now bright and vibrant.
- VGA mod done to analog board. I was going to do the "right-way" mod but read that some were having pincushion adjustment/size issues so I went with the VGA mod since I replaced all caps. Picture adjusts nearly perfect.
- Stereo mod done to analog board. Works but I have some volume issues on the additional speaker that I need to fix.
- Hard disk replace with SD2SCSI with a SD 32gb sd-card partitioned into a <4gb boot HFS partion (for boot reasons - had to learn this!), 4gb HFS Utilities partion , 2ea. 8gb HFS+ partitions and whatever was left as an additional HFS+ partition.
- Stock case fan clean and lubricated - nice and quite and original.
- Motherboard battery replaced with replaceable AA battery pack mounted in a remote location.
- Floppy drive disassembled, cleaned and lubricated.case was completely stripped down.
- Everything cleaned and plastics lightly retro-brighted.
- External CD-ROM and external HD added.
- Running OS8.1,
- probably alot of other stuff that I forgot.
