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After all the work I've done here, do you really think I'd risk bridging the circuit board of the floppy? The floppy chassis can sit on a flat surface without touching anything, there's clearance. You are welcome to do what you think is best, for you, but don't expect everyone else to agree.

Received the eject gears from Betterbit today. Went from Cheddar to Swiss. Used the same lube as the JDW 800K floppy rebuild video, followed that video carefully throughout. I only used (3) of those soft vinyl washers, the assembly is solid and stable, seemingly without the fourth...

I appreciate the reply, thanks! I was so new to the Alps switch overall, none of it made much sense. I've finally got a a grip on it now, thanks to the second YT vid above. I always really appreciate when someone takes their time to make in depth videos like that, commendable.

Was able to get the switches open, I took two apart, and they were very clean inside, not what I expected to see. The contacts are shiny and new in there. This video explains how to bend the contacts inside to get them to touch again, which is what's wrong my (7) switches.

This makes more sense.

These switches are caked with, who knows what, it's not easy to see the tabs press inward. Thanks for that!

De-soldered the bad Alps switches. This one had the circular trace flake off: Looks like water damage on this broken switches legs, some kind of rust. Are these the ones sometimes called salmon switches? A continuity check proves these are not conducting when pressed. Is there a safe...

Can you provide the pics of your Analog board?

I have a working BlueSCSI v2 desktop board here, but I don't use the berg floppy power connector. The only jumpers that I have closed/enabled, are the Termination Power On (green jumper), then PWR_ON, Back Feed jumper is off, 3-pin Initiator set to Target, other Initiator 2-pin header is not...

One more peroxide treatment on the space bar, and it should be done.

Cleaned off the PCB, there are no broken traces, was not in the right spot earlier. Plugged the Extended KB in on the left side port, and nearly all of my keys are working now, including both Shift buttons. The green tombstones are the ones that are extremely flaky, or completely dead, those...

7.0.1 seemed fairly quick with BlueSCSI, I'll make both the 6.0.8, and 7.0.1 images. Want to try 7.5.5 again without all the add ons from Savage Taylor, wondering if that's where the Apple Photo Access module that never works, came from.

Got the KB broken down. Will peroxide the space bar today. A couple of suspicious spots, and oxidation on the bottom of the PCB. Tested this area with a DMM for continuity, the traces look bad, but they are connected still. Will most likely run a jumper wire over the worst looking spots...

Got the same two errors with the corrected hardware spec image, tried unplugging the KB too, to see if that had something to do with this, same issue no matter what. Going to give up on 7.5.5, and focus on 7.0.1.

Are you saying I should make the Baillisk II, 7.5.5 image, use all of the same specs that are in my physical SE? I was under the impression you could use any spec for the Video, CPU, and RAM in Basillisk II, and yet the physical SE would figure out the actual possible specs on its own. I'll...

Thanks for the suggestion! This is the Extended KB, and hard to throw this one out, I've had it for about 18 years now. Looks fairly nice, besides the yellow space bar. I'll tear it down and see if it can possibly live again, it would add to the overall goal to have this one fixed. If I can't...

Thanks for that, didn't realize there was a Trading Post section here. Had I known the badges come out that easy, I would've removed my badge before the peroxide treatment, lesson learned. Will make that WTB right now, thanks again!

Looks like my keyboard is missing characters, and quite a few, including both Shift keys. I'd say I have at least 8 dead keys so far. I noticed it looks like there was water in the KB at one point, as their is actual crusty raised rust spots on the board: The Delete key does work, surprisingly...

I should've tried the KB when 6.0.8 was up, didn't try it on 7.0.1 either. I'll try those Retro images that both work, and see if the KB is ok. Thanks!

After putting together a fresh 7.5.5 image, I now get the same error as before with 7.5.5, but now the text appears. I'm not sure if my keyboard works correctly yet, but Restart and holding Shift does nothing, it reboots without any acknowledgement the Shift key is pressed, and then does the...