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jmacz
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I was supergluing a cracked corner of a case... the superglue was sitting on the case for about 30 secs when I wiped the excess glue off and noticed brightening. I made a test 'J' next to it, waited 30 secs, wiped it off... Hmm...
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jmacz
jmacz
I normally clean the area, fill it with JB Plastic Weld, let it fully cure/dry, and then use sandpaper (start with 120 grit, go to 240, then 400 <- I stop here as I don't want a gloss finish) to sand it to where it's completely even.
jmacz
jmacz
If the area was already smooth, that's the end of the filling process, but if the area had some texture, I'll try (keyword here being try) to recreate the texture by knicking it with a rounded pointy object (tedious process). But note this filling only works because I usually paint the machines I fix up and want to keep.
jmacz
jmacz
Unlike retrobrite, the super glue will take off logos printed on the cases. It's surprising how fast it works.. 30 seconds and the un-yellowed original plastic shows through. All the texture is still there so it's a light layer being removed by the glue. Not really applicable but interesting.
finkmac
after much messing about I mostly succeeded in performing a polarizer replacement on this 2400c panel

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the soap method @jmacz mentioned was indispensable... highly advise removing the backlight first though...not perfect, but sure beats a crackled smelly vinegar panel
RetroTechTom
Not Macintosh related but I finally got my IBM ThinkPad 380ED

I'm waiting for my CD-R's to show up and I will install Windows 95 on it (I'm currently doing a temporary Windows 98 SE install for now)

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croissantking
I asked ChatGPT to show me how Mac OS X might have looked if it were designed to run in 24-bit addressing mode.

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A good start! :)

Further testing will be done tomorrow when I can find where the nice radius video card that was on the IIfx went, my LCD really dosen't like syncing to this random toby card I found.........
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Mk.558
Mk.558
Would love to see some benchmarks of that, compared to a FWB JackHammer and stock IIfx. And compared to a standard 040 machine. :)
defor
defor
What's the likelihood of seeing these produced for the Stage II?
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max1zzz
Unfortunately I don't have a stage II rocket so unless I come across one and the scsi card it's not something I can do
Boctor
Managed to ruin the ends of three traces while removing dead mask ROMs, only on the final chip. Everything was going smoothly until the last possible moment. At least the bodge wires will end up snugly pinned beneath the DIP socket, but it'll be weeks before I forgive myself for blemishing such a pretty logic board...
Retronaut
I'm beginning to think there is some ROM issue with my card. I was wondering if you happen to have an EPROM reader/writer? If so, would it be possible to read the data from your working cards ROM and post it here? What also would really help is a decent, well lit, 4k photo of the chip side of a working card. Who knows, maybe my card has a naughty chip in use on it.
nglayton
nglayton
I apologize, I haven't been following along. I'll see if I can dump the ROM and get those pics for you.
Retronaut
Retronaut
That would be AMAZING! I have an email Bot on Tindie which is meant to email me when Mr GGLabs is back from his PTO. But its been 2+ weeks now and no notification yet. I wonder if the Tindie store is abandoned, of if something has befallen him....
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Still some infrequent and minor twitching on my SE's video, so I took the final step* and recapped its ASTEC power supply. There was one small area that looked like cap ooze had been there. Now, the suspense begins.. either the video is now spot on, or after a long while it'll do it again. (* things like the flyback etc. are just out of my league, and the problem is too minor to risk those )
jmacz
Gonna try dropping by tomorrow… not sure if they will have anything.

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jmacz
jmacz
Yup, Akihabara. Will be walking around half the day so will duck into any store that looks cool. Unfortunately won’t have time to head out of Tokyo. I don’t have a lot of room either so anything laptop size or smaller will work but no systems I think. Will mostly be browsing.

Got to spend time at Map Camera today in Shinjuku which was fun.
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twelvetone12
If you like browsing more camera stuff, there is Camera Kitamura just behind the station in Akihabara, I got some nice Nikon lenses there. But I love just browsing around the electronic shops, I wish they still existed in my country!
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One Power Macintosh total across two stores in Akihabara. Also went by a U&J Mac’s but unfortunately it was closed. Was fun browsing all the stores though.
Powerbase
Bot Invasion!! Whoop whoop whoop!
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Snial
Snial
What's the point of all the bot stuff? Is it a denial-of-service or an AI trying to fool people into thinking this gibberish is real?
Powerbase
Powerbase
I suppose as long as one person falls far it, out of the tens of thousands, then that's payday for spammer/scammers.
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Snial
The ones we can see appear so bad they could be some kind of decade-old Zombie bots gone rogue.
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Boctor
My "new" IIci's soft power was stuck always signaling on, but I found the three micro-breaks in the relevant traces. Wish I'd spotted them during the board washing, but oh well. Humorously, both could've been fixed by simply bridging pins, but I wanted to make this look as elegant as I could, so as not to confuse any future owners.

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ClassicGuyPhilly
And in a completely predictable move as was prognosticated by everyone who knows me....the sickness is spreading :ROFLMAO:
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Boctor
That Dell is exactly of my time. Nice matching peripherals for it, too!
ClassicGuyPhilly
ClassicGuyPhilly
Thanks! Great finds from the VCF East Swap Meet...been waiting to finish the tower off properly. ;)
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