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Cool. Glad I could help with that. :D

Yeah was able to do that. It would not let me login via the username/password field. Maybe because I hadn't created a account specific to the wiki so used the button you mentioned. My username shows like this. Seems it uses underscore for spaces:

Yo, what you need help testing with? Just point me where. :D

Can't edit that post any longer but here's an example image of what I think a 3D printed MiniCD adapter would look like for caddies. Something I drew up in MSPaint real quick. :P As seen with no CD installed. The red portion represents the removable 3D printed piece designed to fit inside the...

Oh wow that looks over engineered if it was meant for caddies. :P I was thinking it was just a static insert that acted as a smaller enclosure. The one you have is the kind of adapter you'd need for slot feeders (like the CD players in cars for example). In that case that kind of design would...

Anybody up for trying to make a MiniCD adapter for caddies? Seems like the part would be relatively simple. I got a Apple CD 300i in my LC 520 chassis. It will read MiniCDs but right now it's finicky trying to get one in the right position and keep it there while putting the caddy into the...

Oh nice. You have a photo of that? Does it look like something that could be 3D printed?

Oh yeah possible that model drive does not like CD-Rs. I have a newer AppleCD 300i caddy loader (internal drive to my Macintosh LC 520) and it reads every CD-R I've made so far. Even some mini-cds. Just have to carefully position them and a little luck for it to stay aligned on insert. On that...

Oh that one looks like a caddy drive. The caddy drives are the only one's I know of that use a voice coil to move the laser assembly. Yeah those definitely suffer from capacitor issues. However the OP's board does not have SMD caps on it....I am assuming it's the non caddy drive with a failing...

Is it the AppleCD 300 Plus series with the tray. The non plus uses a caddy system and that one is known for leaky caps. However the 300 plus is known for a harder to fix issue...broken worm gear. The way to tell if this is the case is if the laser assembly moves. if it doesn't, the worm gear...

Someone over at the Vintage Apple Macintosh Facebook group tried and confirmed the RF module does not physically fit into this slot: I had asked about this there as well. The mystery continues. No one there seems to know what this bay was intended for either. If they intended it for TV tuner...

Interesting. Makes me wish you could somehow toss a 580 wiring harness into a 520/575 chassis. 580 is interesting but it's so bulbus looking compared to the Trinitrons before it. :P EDIT: Oh oops. I accidentally necro'd this. At some point I thought I was in a different thread when I was...

Oh I see. That's the TV personality add-on. I think that's what this one is. Is not an LC Comm slot device if I recall right. (you can see in that photo the LC comm slot in that 630 off to the very right). Unless the 630 had two LC Comm slots, this is something the 575 mobos can't take. :( It's...

I see. I just bring up the Macintosh TV because it was the only chassis of the 5xx line I knew had TV related hardware in it so I had previously checked to see if it put anything there. Oh your photo just loaded for me. Very interesting. It appears the main card this connects to uses the LC...

Really? I checked Macintosh TV photos and it didn't use this bay for it's TV hardware. (Macintosh TV is a modified LC 520 board from what I've read) Does seem like the PCB would align with the side rails but the chassis lacks the screw holes the face plate has.