Breaking open a Compact is a right of passage! Good luck you'll be fine ;)
Here are my notes and pictures on the floppy drive maintenance if you're unfamiliar
Post in thread 'Rescued what I thought was a Mac II' https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/rescued-what-i-thought-was-a-mac-ii.44257/post-489303
I definitely don't want the batteries outside my plan was to use an external SD-SCSI and mount the batteries where the HD normally sits. Will probably do same but with coin cells now. Thanks for all the input guys!
@Compgeke you're absolutely correct I would be coming in 0.6v under (2 x 1.5v). For some reason I thought I read somewhere this configuration would work but was a while ago.
Each pair of AA's is directly wired into the original holder terminals, no series.
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