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Hey, it's good to know that we have lives and interests outside of compact Macs ;)

I don't know, but we'd love to find a way to support ya! 

This is remarkably dangerous and you should not do this, but I've never discharged a Classic, and have had no incidents. The conclusion you should draw: the Classic is safer than most earlier Macs and probably won't kill you, but still discharge anyway.

Oh! – why do you think that replacing the hard drive fixed the external floppy drive? Genuinely curious.

...holding my breath while that gets sorted out! If this works I'm definitely celebrating.

Would love to hear what suggestions people have here as well! I already have a cheapo soldering iron, and I have a cheapo hot air rework station on its way (I am a broke college student after all), but who knows – maybe I'll upgrade soon. I don't know enough to give good product...

It's probably the Mac ROMinator – IIRC it's just a little too thin to make proper contact in the ROM slot, so the manual suggests you apply pressure on it with rubber bands.

I have a Pismo with exactly the same symptoms... for what it's worth, a sound card/DC-in swap didn't work for me, so maybe it's best to focus on the logic board and power card first. Would be very interested in any progress that you make!

If you somehow want gold colour fans, SilenX is also a pretty good brand. Part of me wants to install one of those tacky gamer fans with RGB lighting in a compact Mac for sh*ts and giggles!

Oh yes, me too! I just head of the Browservice web proxy and I'm thinking of how to make it work with my SE/30.

A standard ATX fan case fan works with most compact Macs with a 3/4-pin to 2-pin adapter – although you have to swap the wires, since the pinout's reversed. Replace that with a silent fan (I like SilenX), remove the HD and FDD, and you have a real quite Mac.

Out of curiosity, can you post a photo of the simasimac? That might narrow things down. I was in a situation like yours with the following simasimac. The problem turned out to be the ROM SIMM wasn't making contact, even though it was securely seated... – one of the ROM clips had broken.   

I'm also a fan of classic IDEs as well – because they bundle frameworks (like PowerPlant etc.) that make writing apps considerably more simpler. Plain Toolbox C/Pascal gets unwieldy for a modern programmer pretty quickly.

I wonder if we should just have a Wiki-fied version of the Dead Mac Scrolls, where we can add our own fixes?

Honestly, I have two Sony drives I'm not using – if someone wants them to take them apart and draw up some schematics, I'd be happy to donate them to the cause. My compact Macs don't need them, I haven't checked them since I found the Macs, and I use a Floppy Emu anyway.

Doubling this – I've had random data corruption, random write errors. Would love to try to see if turning SCSI2 off would help, but I broke off the micro-USB connector so...

Oh, yeah, I'd love one as well if y'all manage to keep production happening on an ongoing basis!

I'd also be in for a kit as well! Put me on your list.

Not necessarily – the power connectors on the physical AB are different. But the power connectors that plug into other boards are compatible between the Classic and Classic II – after all, you can upgrade a Classic to a Classic II by swapping the logic board.

+1 to LaPorta's note – there are two revisions of Classic AB, and I used this helpful diagram (from the very useful "Technical Procedures Macintosh Family") to figure out which was which: Welcome to Classic gang gang! These are so, so much easier to work on than SEs and SE/30s. Dare I say...