Carboy7
Well-known member
Hey all, i'm back again!
I finally decided to take a look at my SE/30 and clean up some of the corrosion to prepare it for a recapping. That went about as well as I expected, with a chip lifting half off the board because the caps had eaten the legs. Oh well, it's fixable. Then I decided to check out my IIsi, since I had noticed it had some capacitor-related crud on the logic board right before I put it into storage about a year or two ago.
I took it back out of storage and it looked normal-ish, and then I poked a capacitor to see how loosely it was attached to the logic board. It instantly snapped and fell off. 8-o The whole area was damp with cap juice. Most of the capacitors on the logic board fell off similarly, with barely any force needed before the cap just fell off the pads!
Imagine if I had kept the original Maxell instead of removing it a few years back, that would be the perfect scenario for a cool chemical reaction and an uncool loss of my IIsi.
(check out the cool design that C35 made! I was able to wipe it all away, don't worry)
All the pads still look complete, thankfully. I'll have to inspect all the surrounding chips to make sure they're not traumatized and/or corroded.
(Moral of the story: if you haven't recapped your machines yet, they'll try to do it automatically
)
I finally decided to take a look at my SE/30 and clean up some of the corrosion to prepare it for a recapping. That went about as well as I expected, with a chip lifting half off the board because the caps had eaten the legs. Oh well, it's fixable. Then I decided to check out my IIsi, since I had noticed it had some capacitor-related crud on the logic board right before I put it into storage about a year or two ago.
I took it back out of storage and it looked normal-ish, and then I poked a capacitor to see how loosely it was attached to the logic board. It instantly snapped and fell off. 8-o The whole area was damp with cap juice. Most of the capacitors on the logic board fell off similarly, with barely any force needed before the cap just fell off the pads!
Imagine if I had kept the original Maxell instead of removing it a few years back, that would be the perfect scenario for a cool chemical reaction and an uncool loss of my IIsi.
(check out the cool design that C35 made! I was able to wipe it all away, don't worry)
All the pads still look complete, thankfully. I'll have to inspect all the surrounding chips to make sure they're not traumatized and/or corroded.
(Moral of the story: if you haven't recapped your machines yet, they'll try to do it automatically
)
