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Hey there Paul! Welcome to the club :) ! I can at least answer some of your questions, but also take solutions of others into consideration as there are so many people here with way more experience than myself. 1. The batteries are a bit of a difficulty, there are a few options with these...

in the meantime... has anyone ever tried taking off the metal grills without breaking everything apart? Tried pulling them with a bent pin in one of the holes in the mesh... but it won't really give. Tips anyone? :D

Could very well be the logic board caps, however, the 9600 also is very quiet when starting the first time without a PRAM battery. How is the rest of the sound volume after startup? It's always a good idea to recap the board anyway, as the leaky caps will keep on doing more damage when they...

I was very surprised myself to find my volume and balance potmeters to be completely clean :O no noise at all! I try to order all the replacement parts locally here, because the shipping all over the country is generally €6,75 for packages up to 10kg, but I ordered them here...

Seems like it, just look at the instructions on how to fold the packaging like a display unit :) looks really interesting. I really should get some zip-disks myself someday...

Never thought I would see them for sale up in The Netherlands, but I did! Came with the original power supply and stereo RCA-RCA cables for hooking them up to a CD-player. I was a bit scared when the left speaker didn't make any noise when testing the unit... Turned out that was a...

I've used nothing but radials on my macs. The SMD components look better and may last longer, but the radials are easier to replace when they crap out. Plus I can find then much easier locally. And I like myself to believe that when one of the radial caps leak, it wont damage the board as much...

Could it have anything to do with the square magnets around the yoke being misaligned? It sure seems strange... as far as i know the b&w periscopes didn't have a degaussing coil of some kind right?

Its all in here :)

Has anyone ever had the 4.5 volt battery (found in e.g. the Power Macintosh 4400) explode or leak? I just removed mine to be sure.

I'm surprised how little the case is yellowed, while the apple badge has quite severe discoloration. It cleaned up amazingly well, I hope you will get it working without too much hassle :O Keep us updated!

fantastic video and experiments! love all the different routes that that one command has to go before it actually switches off the Mac :)

putting tape over the hole works... most disks give you a formatting error... some do work though... problem is... they only work for a few times. so dont expect any magic... you can use it for emergency transfers... but the best would be originals. also, if you have a bulk eraser (or a...

i have two Unimac Fly adapters with a single row of Dip switches, it really works on every mac i have with my dell something something 15" LCD panel. They all seem to do 60Hz 640x480 or sometimes 1024x768 when you tell the adapter to do so, even the ones with onboard video.

Also, most of the external drives are exactly the same drives as used internally with a nice case and a cable. Just make sure it is the right type of drive, a plus needs an 800K drive. (though i have no idea about the mounting bracket found on the plus, i figure you could just reuse it with a...

Lots of times the switches on the front sides of the drive that detect whether: - a floppy is in there/ a floppy is write protected / a floppy is a High Density (1.44MB) disk - Gum up and give your Mac false readings. My advice would be to take out the drive, and give it a good clean with cotton...

Hah nice job, the first Mac i recapped myself was my IIci. Gotta have to get me some nice new caps for my LCII (P400) too... the logic board is sitting capless on the shelf now :C (I even managed to glue a pad back that i lifted before anyone could see it :rambo: )

I guess I'm very very lucky after all to be in the NL! SE's, Classics, Pluses for €50 or LESS. (not to mention nobody around here cares for any of the other 68k or PPC stuff, prices as low as free) Also, since we are a small country, pickup is quite easy and shipping up to 10kg is only €6,75.

Oh and please, don't leave that Plus on for long, the energy of the complete CRT screen will be concentrated on that single line, that CAN'T be good for the tube :-/ Re-flowing the Yoke connector J1 as well as the connector going to the logic board (J4) helped me get rid of a lot of...

Yeah and since i don't really NEED any of those macs, i'm still happy with my fairly standard collection of things :) i enjoy every mac. We all just have to be patient.