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Yeah, any SCSI CD-ROM drive should work, though you will need that funky Apple adapter board that fits into the SCSI and power molex and adapts it for the 630's edge connector. You can probably buy those on eBay, but they might be pricey too, dunno. :( Here is a picture of one taken from a...

Agreed, this would be a great resin candidate.

Interesting, C8 and C18 were the 2 offenders on my PSU. They had both leaked and the mask on the other side of the PCB was damaged.

Nice write-up! I just did my Performa 630 motherboard and power supply last weekend and then 40MHz mod today. It's a snappy 68k Mac running at 40MHz! Also surprised that Apple used Nichicon caps in these "cheap" computer power supplies, though a couple of the smaller ones had just started to...

Well dang! Yeah, the LEDs on mine test good too. I wonder if this is a common failure. For now, I've stopped troubleshooting it and was going to start looking for another cheap CD SC to compare to.

Yeah, I think the nozzle is a stock .4mm nozzle. Here is the STL if you want to try the .2mm nozzle.

Well, on a somewhat related note, I've recapped my AppleCD SC, cleaned the lens, and lubricated everything, and it works PERFECTLY except that the power and activity LEDs do not work. There appears to be no voltages going to the LED headers on the SCSI board. ARGH! So something is messed up in...

designed a test gear and am trying to print it now. my printer (Ender 3D Pro) is having a hard time printing such fine detail tho.

Hey there -- I have an AppleCD SC torn to bits on my workbench right now that I'm recapping and restoring. The gears on mine work fine, but I could remove the gear and design/print a replacement. Can you take a picture of your drive and which gear this is? There are a bunch in there. :)

Pretty epic restore! Impressive!

Not the red/brown glue dots of glue from holding the cap, but beige/light brown crust under the caps around the legs of the caps. It looks like dried electrolytic from inside the cap that has slowly leaked out.

More progress to report. System is working well. Booted an 8.6 CD on the internal CD-ROM, reformatted and installed onto the HDD. Everything is working fantastic. Now to clean the FDD... I wish the plastics on these weren't so brittle. They are fantastic machines to work on, except for the...

After seeing some nasty caps on a beige G3 Power Mac, I decided to open up my beautiful iMac G4 and check the caps. A quick visual inspection looked good, but you know what can lurk beneath. I removed a few of the SMDs and sure enough... While there wasn't any liquid on the board, there were...

I don't have a Classic II, but projects like this are just awesome. Nice work moldy!

Ugh, well at least there are some good parts. Plus it was free! :)

The price is right! The Iici is a very fine machine! Hopefully the battery didn't puke its guts onto the logic board...keep us posted!

UPDATE! I replaced the 4 caps on the voltage regulator board and the G3 now chimes and boots to a ?. Hurray! Now to fine a boot disc and HDD...

This is the exact behavior on my SEs with OEM Apple drives for sure.

Ugh, I hate problems like this. You have to check every component from the speaker back, unless someone knows of a common failure point on these. I see you used organic caps, were they shade grown and free trade too? I kid! I kid!

Picked a beige G3/266 desktop some time ago, listed as working, however when I plug it in, it is dead. The fan on the PSU powers up, but the power LED does not, no power chime, the HDD or CD drive do not power on either. Bad PSU? So time to start troubleshooting... Measured the voltages...