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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Rebuilding/Upgrading a Found SE/30.A wire back to the intact trace, then twisted into a little spiral shape where the pad should be is an option. Solder-soaked desoldering...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread No Sound Se/30 Reloaded board.Is the speaker good? Should be somewhere around 55 to 64 ohms (my working ones usually measure 58ohms).
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Floppy not reading. Nuts..Well, good news. I reset the spring and tried Bruce's method, but it made little difference either to the clamping force (which looked...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Floppy not reading. Nuts..Thanks, I'll give that a shot too. Just have to disassemble everything again, I got too excited. Sigh.
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Floppy not reading. Nuts..Spoke too soon. It reads some floppies some times, usually just as far as opening the disk and showing the files. IO errors when...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Floppy not reading. Nuts..Win! Found the spring, figured out how to disassemble the head assembly (seek motor out, couple of extra screws, then the whole head...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Floppy not reading. Nuts..Ah, cool, I didn't notice a spring on either the working or not working drive back there. Will look closer tonight, thanks. Might be a...
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SHello all. I have a Superdrive in an SE/30 that's not reading or initialising disks. Two in fact, but I'm only looking at one at the...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Classic issue.Nice one :)
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Classic issue.Ya, reset goes to pin 7 on UA5 (sound chip) according to the BOMARC schematic. Buzz that out to see if you have continuity. If you do...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread A journal of two SE/30s.Yeah I'm in the same boat. I just finished off two SE/30 recaps, so 22 caps, with push/twist. Zero pad damage. Conversely, may years...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread A journal of two SE/30s.Check Adrian's Digital Basement videos, eg this one from about 6 minutes in. Actually he's way more...er...vigorous than I would be...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread A journal of two SE/30s.Don't get me wrong, hot air stations are great, but exercise extreme caution using them. Very easy to melt something you didn't mean...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Mac SE/30 high voltage on 30v rail.Thanks, always nice to get another one back. Maybe this thread will help someone else one day, although this seems to be a pretty...
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SSpocksBeer replied to the thread Mac SE/30 high voltage on 30v rail.It lives....again! Turns out the fault was with the C13 cap, near the flyback. Completely dried out/not capacitoring. It's meant to...
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