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Any ideas on how to remove the corrosion from the legs of the various components on this motherboard? I've included a photo of what it looks like so far. To be honest, I can't tell if is corrosion of goo left over from leaky pram battery. I washed the motherbaoard twice already and still it...

Got it! Thanks

I washed the motherboard yesterday and tried turning on the unit today. Much to my surprise it turned on! However, it just showed a blank gray screen. Guess I'm going to have to send this to Uniserver to get recapped. Thanks for the advice guys!

Hello everyone, I'm having a little bit of a difficult time taking the motherboard out of an LC. I can't seem to separate the fan from the motherboard. I'm sure this is something really simple, but didnt want to break anything! Thanks.

Photos of the carnage I found!

Thank you so much for your advice. I will give all of this a shot and let you know what I come up with.

I will give that a shot. Just out of curiosity, what would happen if the traces are damaged? Does that make the board useless? With regards to tantalums vs. stock caps. Some people on this forum say that you never really know how a capacitor that was not designed to be on the board will...

Thanks for the advice. There is some serious leakage here. Looks like a pram battery exploded at some point. What do you guys like to go with? Tantalum, or aluminum caps? Also, I see that there are 3 slots for inserting some type of ram, two shorter ones and one long one. The large slot is...

Thanks for your reply! You mean I can slip out the motherboard without disconnecting it from the monitor? I read in another posting that it is kind of tricky to disconnect the motherboard from the monitor because it involves talking the yolk out which can be very delicate. Did I read that...

Hello everyone, I am trying to get a Macintosh Classic Color to turn on. I am using a keyboard that once belonged to a Macintosh Power 5400. I used the on button on the keyboard but nothing happened (there shouldnt be a compatibility issue with the keyboards....right?) Anyways I'm wanting to...

Thanks for the input, I just can't get over the fact that it is okay to wash a motherboard! All my life I have been told to keep electronics away from water! But I guess it works for a lot of people! Also, does anyone know what those three holes on the back of the monitor is?

Hello everyone, Thanks for all your input. So looks like I need to replace the caps. So here are a few questions I have: 1. What should I do about the mess that is one the motherboard? Someone suggested taking a tooth brush to it using some pure alcohol. Is that the best way? Are there any...

I've already removed the hard drive. You think it is worth recapping? Or to just get another one? Could there be other reasons this is not working?

Hello, I just aquired a Macintosh LC II and its 12 inch monitor from a friend of mine who got it at an estate sale. When I hooked everything up and turned on the LC, I saw that the screen was dark. So I waited a little while and then suddenly an image came up. It was just a gray blank screen (I...

Honestly, one of my intentions was to be able to install dinopark tycoon on my macintosh LC. I only have the CD version of it and not the floppy. My second reason for getting one would be to back up the OS on to the CD so if at any time the floppies (for compact macs not the LC) didnt work, I...

Well I might as well ask you another question I had! Did the external SCSI CD drives get far enough into the 90's to become having CD burning capabilities? Imagine burning CDs on a macintosh LC or a performa! That sounds pretty cool to me.

That sounds like a fun project! Did Apple ever Mac any external SCSI CD drives?

Just out of curiosity, could you use an external SCSI CD drive with a macintosh plus? I know there would be no practical use for this on a macintosh plus but I was just wondering if it could work? Could it work for a macintosh LC? Cheers!

Hello, I'm wondering if the apple II gs monitor will work with the macintosh LC or would I have to modify its connections to make it work? Also, does anyone know what the model number of the monitor that originally came with the LC is? Thanks!!

Hello, I was wondering if I could get more information about the different types of boxes that the macintosh plus came in? So far I've seen two original manufacturers boxes, a white one with a color photo of the macintosh plus and a monochrome one that looks like an ordinary cardboard box that...