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i took the hinges apart used a drill to make the hinge hole wider used some vaseline to loosen it and made the other hinge completely loose so its only using one hinge.  is hard to explain 

wow! good job

I had a powerbook 145b and you know what I lost ky patience with the hinges and just snapped them off. I was able to find replacment screen for it and adjusted the hinges so they are looser

i had one it could be the power adapter plug needs resoldering or the thing was plugged in the wrong voltage. or its just a peice of junk like mine was

try baking soda and alcohol. wow i never seen these batteries leak before 

i use the black square 45w adapter for the powerbook g3 series made in 1998.  works on my clamshell and duo and powerbook g3

hey it worked for me... its a hard thing to remove unless you use a soldering iron maybe. 

try a different cable

i just rip it out with my hands and use plyers to pull the battery off the contacts usually worka without the two metal pieces breaking off

wow nice. wish i could do my duo 280c/2300c. whats weird is the 1994 battery still holds a charge for 10 seconds!

i dont know. but sounds like it is just bad (somebody probably plugged in the wrong voltage). and whatever is salvageable you can i guess scrap it and get a new 180? it doesnt need ram to turn on. 

does it turn on and make a sound? if ot doesnt work then the logic board  is bad

no i had to toss it and use the rest for parts. somebody fried the logic board on it. you could buy a parts 180 and swap the boards and screens. 

the post you quoted i had a issue with ended up being a dead backlight bulb and tunnelling problem the best way is to find a parts 180 and just replace the screen. also that 180 just didnt work at all the board was fried somebody fried the board plugging in wrong voltage i think. active matrix...

try turning it on then off and on again

this happend to me recently to. all a sudden none of my floppies were reading. i think onr of the floppy drives may of damaged the film . but some of the floppies could be formatted some not .weird

i have 2 extra trackball assemblies if your interested 

one thing i try whenever i get one of these junk 100 series powerbooks is use tape and tape the ribbon cable all around so it wont tear as easy 

my powerbook170 that i restored works fine but after using it a while it freezes up out of nowhere and makes a speaker pop noise. is something shorting it? is it the hard drive? Thanks  also its known for getting really warm after being on a while so mabie thats it?

Am i supposed to set the scsi2 sd to something for it to boot properly? it wont save the settings in the scsi2 sd tools on my macbook.