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They are definitely one of the better machines for checking out quickly, due to the way it opens all the way out. In addition to what has already been mentioned, look for excessive dust/dirt in the fans/cooling fins and if you find a lot, make sure that it gets cleaned out, since the power...

I didn't even know about these 750 MB Zip drives until a few years ago, so when you asked this question, I turned first to my stash of old turn-of-the-millennium-era macwarehouse/macmall books and could not find one reference to them at all. They did confirm your price on the 100s and the 250s...

I will - very soon! The 750 will read the other disks (according to the documentation), unfortunately I have no practical experience with it, but I should be able to give a more definitive answer in a few days. I've been looking for my 3-pack of 750 disks for the past few days and have...

As I've mentioned in a couple other spots here and here, I have been on the lookout for the MDD Zip 750 faceplate since I found out they exist. Not so much the drive since I found one of those a while back, hidden inside a normal appearing MDD. Every few days, my eBay search finds the same...

...and now I can cancel my search. because I found this a few days ago on eBay.

I've tried to make the best of the exact same situation. (the mouse was one of my earliest experiments with retrobrighting, before I learned moderation (not everything needs it) and patience (any of the fast methods can also go wrong very quickly). btw - this seems to keep away the...

Thought for the day - Where did my roll of Kapton tape get to... ?

Now that it beautiful! Congrats!

I have seen only a couple of these listed across the various forums (across the years) with issues, so I'm going to draw the conclusion that they are either built like tanks... or not. From my own personal experience with them, mine have not required recapping... yet. I have two of my own that...

In the Macintosh Portable Tech Procedures manual (p 2.26 Display Assembly) it does not mention anything about applying lubrication when re-installing/ re-assembling the clutch assembly.

The one I found was this... https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01K0SA5I8 From the web page it is pretty much the "wild west" regarding what it can be mixed with:

Yes, there is. I have a bookmark for it... somewhere, but I have spent the last 1-1/2 hours trying to figure out where I squirreled it away at. :( I'm pretty sure that it was related to my Tandy laptop research, but so far I've not been able to find the right link. I am going to have to try...

I have been using alcohol variants to successfully address rubberized coating degradation on several items (usually it works by removing the outer degraded coating, which is not desirable for all use cases), so I find this use of mica powder intriguing, not to mention that while looking further...

Thanks for the reminder - I had sent an email last month (5/2) looking for an item and had not heard back yet, I wanted to follow back up, but I wanted to give it enough time not to seem needy (or too eager) ;-)

I think that I did something similar to that within FutureBasic (it was a long time ago) I will look it up and see if it is applicable to your question about RealBasic.

Are you sure that you have fully plugged in all the connectors? I know this is a basic step on re-assembly, but if you do enough of these, sometimes you notice the CRT board connectors might not be fully engaged after reassembly.

Yes, people 3D print them, but I have had really good experience with the ones that are molded - they seem to be both a stronger and also a more accurate copy (the teeth of those gears are really small and they need to be accurately shaped to work right). When I refresh my floppy drives, I take...

That was a thoroughly enjoyable writeup and a fantastic piece of work getting it working and upgraded. Nicely done!