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Ta!  I just found this which features the caps on the inverter/lcd: 

Anybody got a parts list for the caps? 

Finally got around to getting a power adapter so I can test what's happening with these bad boys. One of the right is first one that came with the broken screen (looks like its the same as what's going on...

Was it fluro type or just a bulb? Sorry for 100s of questions, all the resources on this stuff is scattered over forums and youtube videos - it's good to get info from someone in the same geographic location as me.  

My understanding was that you can't boot from cd's on 68k macs, so that's only useful if upgrading. 

@AP  Great advice, I'm in Melbs too, I tried doing the bottom of my plus keyboard in the sun and it was streaky af. I used gladwrap and only applied the creme once. Few questions: What lamp UV did you get, a bulb or a florescent lamp type? There's $10 bulbs at Bunnings but I'm not sure if...

Ok I've won another faulty pb100. Paid too much for it but the heart wants what the heart wants.  Shall report back on my progress. 

In Australia unfortunately thanks for the offer though. There's another pb100 on ebay at the moment with a missing battery and a broken track wheel, it's fairly cheap currently and I doubt it'll go up due to the condition it's in. I might merge the 2 into a working one.

UGH, it just arrived - the screen is smashed and the hinge is broken too. Neither of which were mentioned in the description. I'm pretty pissed. 

I scored a Powerbook 100 from ebay for super cheap, however it didn't come with a power adapter. It should arrive some time this week. Can someone let me know what kind of power adapter it requires, is it a standard socket or does it have a property one? I've found this...

I can take a photo of both ends of mine if it helps. 

Can the SE boot from the disk you've made? 

Yep, though I run Ubuntu through Virtual Box on my mac, the mac version doesn't play well with High Sierra. For some reason it only sees the first scsi2sd formatted drive which is annoying as I have to (slowly) copy everything over to my files drive on the Plus.  Here's what my settings look...

I've found BasiliskII is better, lets you mount your sd card to transfer files over and it shares your files out of the box. 

So just a quick update for any other people who are trying to get a mac plus booting with the scsi2sd who come across this thread in the future: I kept getting errors when trying to format disks larger than 1gb with the vanilla Apple HD SC Setup Utility that came with my System 7.0 disks (it...

With osx you can do a DD command to clone drives with terminal, super simple: dd if=/dev/rdiskx of=disk.img bs=512 dev/rdisx is your sd card - run diskutil list to find what its path is. 

Is it the patched HD setup tool? If not you need to configure the scsi2sd as a seagate drive - see here https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/27215-fitting-a-scsi2sd-in-a-68k-mac/ I'd set it to a small size like 40meg first to see if it works then fiddle around with larger sizes. It takes...

Well so I figured I'd try something whilst I was waiting for the patched util disk to arrive - I put a blank sd into the scs2sd and setup the scsi2sd as the seagate drive as per here (https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/27215-fitting-a-scsi2sd-in-a-68k-mac/).  I then booted with the...

Spoke too soon - it's still doing it with the scsi cable/centronics ribbon (maybe I've fried the scsi controller), but it's still letting me to install to the sd if I insert it after the happy mac screen.   The disk utilities disk should arrive in the next couple of days, I'll report back once...

Oh my I feel like an idiot! I didn't even realise it was a serial cable until Michael pointed it out after I sent him a link to the ebay listing, I very naively thought DB25 meant scsi. I should have known anyway as I used parallel port printers for years in the pre usb days.  Still super weird...