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Great documentation, thank you for sharing!  I've done the full clean up and relube on maybe half a dozen floppy drives now. Never hit a screw so stuck - have been lucky I suppose. I've been using lithium grease which seems to work fine, at least in the shorter term (drives are very smooth), no...

Great video! Looking forward to part 2. 

Yeah - they are all model A9M0107. As shown in the video, they make a satisfying noise but never seem to actually load any data. 

Greetings Apple II friends. I am attempting to repair a IIe card I received in a lot. I recapped it and it seems to work OK, except for reading 5.25" disks. My lack of Apple II knowledge and experience is hindering my debugging ability.  I was able to get it to read a ProDOS 3.5" disk (via the...

OK, here's the rub:  It won't boot from a 5.25" drive.  Every time I try, the drive lights up and makes the initial "seeking" sound, then the card gives up and says "unable to boot from startup slot". The card is clearly communicating with the drives, but seemingly won't actually read from...

Thanks for the tips! I scrubbed with white vinegar and it cleaned up nicely.  I completed the IIe card recap earlier today, following a bit of practice on an old Cable Modem board. I felt pretty ok with how it came out for a first timer.  Here was my basic method: Removed the old leads with...

Tasty! Very nice condition. I sold my iBook G3/500 ages ago. Maybe time to join the club and buy a replacement ;) I bought 10.0 on launch day. Was back to Mac OS 9 within a couple hours of playing around :D

Awesome, I'm hyped! :sleepy: I feel you on the old floppy disk woes. I too have a drive dedicated to first-test and imaging - the internal on my LC 475. Easy to access for service when needed. I've been aggressively using cleaning disks when testing/imaging old sketchy disks. Have had a fair...

Nice one! Congrats on having the ultimate collection  :cool:

Sweet deal. I love neat little collections like these. And tile wallpaper! It's the best. I use tiled patterns on all my modern machines.  Upload to Macintosh Garden maybe? :) Haha that shirt is cool as hell. Not too bad for the current timed "sale" price IMO. Let me know if you're passing...

Got some caps in! Diving in this weekend. Ended up with both the UCB and UCW caps and will see what fits better. Going to practice on some junk (non-Mac) boards that have a few SMT caps and then swap some number on a working LC III board (testing after each swap) before attempting the IIe card...

Nice one! Beautiful condition. Local pickup for the win.  Shipping these sucks. I bought a Flower Power on eBay some 3-4 years ago, arrived with a smashed up case. Seller sent me another one he had in stock as a replacement. That one came OK except for the darn plastic internal frame which...

This is fantastic - congrats on the finds and thank you for sharing. The writing looks nice!

CRT face down makes sense when you think about how the CRT is attached to the plastic frame. After reading that suggestion in this thread, that's how we transported it in our cars - bubbled wrapped in a box, CRT face-down. 

OK, I've gone down the rabbit hole of Nichicon's extensive cap catalog :) I think I've narrowed it down to either the UCB line ("Long Life Assurance") or UCW ("Low Impedance, Long Life Assurance"). These have 7000 hours @ 105°C ratings vs the normal 1000 or 2000.  Is there any reason not to...

Extremely helpful, thank you! I have some more confidence now - maybe I'll be able to figure this out sooner (and cheaper) than I thought :) The two caps on the IIe board came off with surprising ease via "press down and carefully twist." Tested them on a multimeter: C1 tested good (~26uF)...

Hey there! Please bear with me on this long topic. I acquired a 575 recently (a long sought-after machine for me), with a IIe card (my first real foray into Apple II), and it's becoming my big "learn to recap" impetus. So I am simultaneously assessing the board and thinking about how best to...

I'm delighted to report back that this story has a happy ending. No depressing picture of a smashed up endangered species here. Probably because: We didn't ship it.  In a surprising twist, the seller drove it 10 hours north and I drove 7 hours south to pick it up. Him and his wife had planned...

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You sound convinced but I'll happily pile on the "go for it!" :) I acquired one myself earlier this year and find myself using it quite a bit. It's a great 'in between' machine right at the end of the beige line: has both SCSI and ATA, has built-in serial ports and also built-in ethernet...