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I am using the evapo rust on the frame. I bought too little to start and could only properly clean the floppy drive bracket but it did a wonderful job. I don’t think it’ll do anything negative. I’ll report back.

Got it. I’ll do my best! And, I suppose, worst comes to worst I can always swap out the chips. I’ve already checked and can get them from DigiKey so if I ruin a chip it’s not the end of the world.

Thanks! I’ll give that procedure a shot this weekend. I have already washed the board with warm water and soap with an IPA (not beer) rinse, scrubbing with a brush, etc. I was reading that evapo rust should be safe for the board in general so I’m going to give it an hour soak tonight and...

Thanks also for that advice! I will check those too, but I am less concerned with them given that there was minimal cap leakage there and the UJx and UIx chips are looking quite suspect.

Thanks! I’ll see about getting one of those. So, just scrape away until the solder starts to stick, reflow, then hot air and lift?

I’m back with another SE/30 repair. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to resurrect this one, as I failed and had some outside help to fix up the last one that had some nasty cap goo trace damage. This one’s a battery bombed unit, but it was fairly light. It seems it was luckily stored on its face or...

Wanted to get involved in this thread since I’ve had an interest in getting an MO drive swapped in place of the floppy drive on an SE/30. I’ve been toying with the idea off and on for several years now. I finally had a replacement bracket made up that has slots for the mounting screws so I...

Finally had an opportunity to get to recapping my Vulcan. C9 had failed and spilled its guts a little so after a visual inspection I opted not to even try powering it on unrestored until I had replaced the caps. After replacing, I popped it into my IIgs with the original hard drive installed...

Unless I’ve missed something, those schematics are the logical schematics. My original intention was to find the original, physical board schematics so I could find which traces are the ones run under capacitor C9 and check those first before diving in to the tedious work for checking...

I’ve also just fattened up the board with solder. Not nearly as scientifically as this, just eyeballing it and a couple tests, trying to keep it as thin as possible while being consistent. Probably a heck of a lot easier than swapping the socket, and if I ever want to set it back to stock I can.

Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like I didn't read closely enough into the details on the SE/30 Reloaded board with is not a 1-to-1 redraw of the original tracing. Sure enough it's vastly different in the area I'm concerned with. So, for now I'm back to square one of exhaustively checking all...

OK, I'll have to look into the chip select lines and better understand that so I know exactly what I'm taking out. For what it's worth, I didn't use hot air for installing the chips. My usual solder, chip quik flux and drag soldering, with some spot checks as needed. I don't have low temp...

Hi folks, To avoid burying the lede, this is yet another SE/30 simasimac repair post. I've got one board that is just not cooperating with me, though at least I've narrowed down some areas I think are most suspect. Current condition is a boot to jailbars, no sounds. RAM and ROM are known...

Took a while since I didn’t have any orders to submit but I finally got around to buying some caps and filled out all spots marked for decoupling caps. Only three pads but they’re all filled in. I bought a size too small so they were tricky to get in but it’s done. R2 was removed (measured 33...

Oh, I suppose I should have mentioned that in the first post in terms of things I had tried. That was one of the settings I was toggling in a desperate effort to figure out why it wasn’t working. With regards to defaults, at least in my case it is default off. If I have TCP/IP disabled and...

Interesting. I’ll see about giving that a try. Any guesses as to why this is the case?

Since I just went through this whole process with my 3400c I figured I'd provide some input. LaPorta dropped a comment in my thread about looking in to an SD to IDE adapter instead of the CF to IDE I was using. I went out of my way to ensure the CF card had UDMA, I read online that was needed...

With the SD card adapter installed, everything's running smoothly! The WaveLAN driver and software did not play well with the CF card installation I had. Caused the whole system to be unbootable. I imaged the SD card to 8.6, plugged it in, and it booted up perfectly. WaveLAN installed, and I was...

One more last update. The BlueSCSI was sent off to the seller, who determined the SCSI connector had been soldered on upside down. While still pin compatible, it seems to have lead to it forming a weak connection with the internal ribbon cable. For the record, I purchased it assembled! So this...

I’ve got other orders to make, I’m recapping a 20SC and a Vulcan. I just was doing the online equivalent of muttering to myself about things I ought to do. One interesting observation I’ve made. From beeping out the pins on the existing chips I made a guide for what was common and what was...