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Michael has always been wonderfully helpful to me.

We back up daily, even with our old machines, so restoring isn't an issue.  I have a spare PATA HD, so I CAN replace it.   

G4 Yikes, OS 8.6 has been chugging along for a several years. It sat in storage for several years before that.   Last week, we started getting disk error messages "item could not be saved due to a disk error" or "item could not be moved due to a disk error."  Yet the items would be saved, or...

Thanks!  I'll have to mess with it some more once I get the chance. 

I gave up on the SSD.  I could never get it to work properly.  I don't know if I had a bad SATA to PATA adapter or a bad SSD or if there was something else I was missing. I did have a bit of success with a SCSI2SD.  There's another post on these forums where I am asking how to get rid of the...

We are running 3 consoles, and we have installed chillers on all three to help keep the temperatures down.  I am hot sure where we would fit any extra filters.

A couple of years ago we started getting all kinds of crazy referencing errors and discovered the bulging capacitors in our Macs. We found a guy in Michigan who does recaps for a living.  One by one we sent our on duty Macs and our spares to him.  He cleaned the boards, recapped them. and tested...

Everything you see in the pics is sheet metal, mostly stainless and Hot-rolled Pickled and Oiled steel.  There is a little copper medallion as well.  The big booth is just a lot of steel panels welded together. Since I didn't know what hardi panel was, I went and looked it up.  No, we don't use...

That is an excellent tip.  Finding KB skins for the old keyboards is extremely difficult, and we wear right through them anyway.  It is much easier to get skins for USB keyboards. Yes it most certainly does.  The guys have worn right through the vinyl in spots.  What you see isn't...

Nope, it's only compatible through OS 7.1, and was never made for any PPC.  There is a NuBus Comm card inside the IIci/IIsi that connects to a motion board inside the console.  We were told we couldn't update the Mac to a newer model due to the way the comm card and the motion board communicate...

Due to a lot of the responses I was getting from people and the full knowledge that we have always been a bit unique both the manufacturing industry and the Apple community, I figured I was confusing quite a few people.  You are in good company.  It occurred to me that posting a bunch of pics...

I prefer the mechanical hard drives too.  Less trouble to configure.  Unfortunately, they are very difficult to procure now. The SCSI2SD should be able to withstand 90°+ shop temperatures with 95% humidity and the pervasive grit and grime of metal fabricating (Did you SEE the keyboard pic?) a...

I am working on that.  

I will keep that in mind, thanks!

Snort! That's the first time I've ever heard it called a can opener! We make all kinds of crazy things on those.  I've attached some interesting photos of big things and little things that we've used those machine to punch out almost if not everything you see in the picture.

You're welcome!  Interesting is one way of putting it, haha.

Thanks! We bought several of these machines used so we could keep doing what we are doing and expand our capacity.  We even purchased a Laser/turret press hybrid made by the same company so we could keep using the same programming software.

Absolutely!  See my response to Mr SN for more info.  I can try to get some photos of the inside of a console if anyone is interested in seeing it.

It's not the easiest road to travel. It's a completely foreign world to what most Mac users know. THE SCSI2SD adapters we bought last year saved our butts when a heat wave (like we are having now in Ohio) hit and our old SCSI drives started failing one by one.  Once I got the first SCSI2SD...

To work correctly, the clamps must open and close, the stops need to engage or disengage, the turret must spin to the correct location, and the sheet has to reference correctly.