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I posted this in the lounge back in May (What did you do to your Mac today?)... the piece is still fine and although I haven't been removing that piece, I have taken the case off and put it back on several times since then and it is still holding without change. I think this fix depends on how...

Here are a couple items to check, from when I looked over the picture. Not sure if they are anything or not, just ideas for things to check. - There seems to be a scratch across the vias where the negative battery terminal attaches (near B2). You might check where the traces lead for...

I've used one of those to 'keep up' the rebuilt 6 volt batteries for my Portables when the computers are in storage - they seem to do fine, otherwise, they would be dead in under a year. Mine has two settings, a 'quick charge' (which I do not suggest) and a very slow charge that I use for this...

I'm sorry, but I have never seen this occur. Bad plastics e.g. 'Spindler' items will not necessarily be improved, but I have seen other items that were severely yellowed, and following a correct, retrobriting were in better shape afterwards. Yes, they had improved flexibility as well as...

They are definitely one of the better machines for checking out quickly, due to the way it opens all the way out. In addition to what has already been mentioned, look for excessive dust/dirt in the fans/cooling fins and if you find a lot, make sure that it gets cleaned out, since the power...

I didn't even know about these 750 MB Zip drives until a few years ago, so when you asked this question, I turned first to my stash of old turn-of-the-millennium-era macwarehouse/macmall books and could not find one reference to them at all. They did confirm your price on the 100s and the 250s...

I will - very soon! The 750 will read the other disks (according to the documentation), unfortunately I have no practical experience with it, but I should be able to give a more definitive answer in a few days. I've been looking for my 3-pack of 750 disks for the past few days and have...

As I've mentioned in a couple other spots here and here, I have been on the lookout for the MDD Zip 750 faceplate since I found out they exist. Not so much the drive since I found one of those a while back, hidden inside a normal appearing MDD. Every few days, my eBay search finds the same...

...and now I can cancel my search. because I found this a few days ago on eBay.

I've tried to make the best of the exact same situation. (the mouse was one of my earliest experiments with retrobrighting, before I learned moderation (not everything needs it) and patience (any of the fast methods can also go wrong very quickly). btw - this seems to keep away the...

Thought for the day - Where did my roll of Kapton tape get to... ?

Now that it beautiful! Congrats!

I have seen only a couple of these listed across the various forums (across the years) with issues, so I'm going to draw the conclusion that they are either built like tanks... or not. From my own personal experience with them, mine have not required recapping... yet. I have two of my own that...

In the Macintosh Portable Tech Procedures manual (p 2.26 Display Assembly) it does not mention anything about applying lubrication when re-installing/ re-assembling the clutch assembly.

The one I found was this... https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01K0SA5I8 From the web page it is pretty much the "wild west" regarding what it can be mixed with:

Yes, there is. I have a bookmark for it... somewhere, but I have spent the last 1-1/2 hours trying to figure out where I squirreled it away at. :( I'm pretty sure that it was related to my Tandy laptop research, but so far I've not been able to find the right link. I am going to have to try...

I have been using alcohol variants to successfully address rubberized coating degradation on several items (usually it works by removing the outer degraded coating, which is not desirable for all use cases), so I find this use of mica powder intriguing, not to mention that while looking further...

Thanks for the reminder - I had sent an email last month (5/2) looking for an item and had not heard back yet, I wanted to follow back up, but I wanted to give it enough time not to seem needy (or too eager) ;-)