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Analog board cleared of old caps and glue. New caps in. Tricky spot with NP film cap. Is it really necessary to hot glue the caps in there?

Went to the mailbox today, and found a special delivery from @Juror22, it's pieces of the outer jacket layer of a 5 1/4" floppy. Thanks so much!! The soft vinyl washers found on the 800K floppy drive, measure at 0.30mm thick. The floppy jacket measures 0.33mm, and is soft and with the...

I haven't abandoned this project, still waiting on the Alps clone switches. I had thought they were coming from Germany, but they're coming from the UK (untracked), so it's a bit of a mystery when - or if - they will arrive. Couldn't find a closer two-pin Alps clone match, to the salmon colored...

I was very fortunate to have located a new badge for the SE, huge thanks to @Juror22 for sending me the nicest badge I could imagine! Put the washer that went missing - and was then found - back on the 800K floppy drive, and tested both drives with a Tour SE floppy from ebay. Both drives work...

Thank you for the welcome,I do appreciate it. This is a great site, and I'm glad to have found it. To the point of tone, and etiquette: I'm a participant in many other forums, over many years, and I see some familiar behavior across them all. If you're going to post in someone's thread, it's...

I dug out my - what are said to be vintage now - original RC10 and RC10 GT cars, last year around this time, and have since gotten carried away with restoring those, and building newer ones too. There are a few too many more than this. The Tamiya Sand Scorcher is about to get a 3D printed VW...

Got the PRAM holder in.

Out of (7) bad Alps switches, I could only repair (2). It looks as if someone spilled a drink in this keyboard at one point, and didn't immediately open it and clean it out. There were also broken pieces of the lower case plastic floating inside, so this may have been dropped hard at some...

That's too cool that the onboard 4Mb memory was repurposed for a RAMdisk, not much use for it otherwise. Nicely done!

The cheese wheels of impending doom, are finally gone. Big thanks to @Fred1212 for recommending the Betterbit eject gears, they are really good. Indistinguishable from the original in both fit and mesh. $5.75 for (2) with free delivery. Super fast shipping. 800K #2 operates much better...

Coming in to someone's thread, just to say they're doing it wrong, isn't going to go easy. Maybe change the tone of the entrance, to include your specific experience of a time when you saw someone actually bridge their floppy drive sitting it on a flat surface. I am enjoying this Mac SE so far...

After all the work I've done here, do you really think I'd risk bridging the circuit board of the floppy? The floppy chassis can sit on a flat surface without touching anything, there's clearance. You are welcome to do what you think is best, for you, but don't expect everyone else to agree.

Received the eject gears from Betterbit today. Went from Cheddar to Swiss. Used the same lube as the JDW 800K floppy rebuild video, followed that video carefully throughout. I only used (3) of those soft vinyl washers, the assembly is solid and stable, seemingly without the fourth...

I appreciate the reply, thanks! I was so new to the Alps switch overall, none of it made much sense. I've finally got a a grip on it now, thanks to the second YT vid above. I always really appreciate when someone takes their time to make in depth videos like that, commendable.

Was able to get the switches open, I took two apart, and they were very clean inside, not what I expected to see. The contacts are shiny and new in there. This video explains how to bend the contacts inside to get them to touch again, which is what's wrong my (7) switches.

This makes more sense.

These switches are caked with, who knows what, it's not easy to see the tabs press inward. Thanks for that!

De-soldered the bad Alps switches. This one had the circular trace flake off: Looks like water damage on this broken switches legs, some kind of rust. Are these the ones sometimes called salmon switches? A continuity check proves these are not conducting when pressed. Is there a safe...

Can you provide the pics of your Analog board?

I have a working BlueSCSI v2 desktop board here, but I don't use the berg floppy power connector. The only jumpers that I have closed/enabled, are the Termination Power On (green jumper), then PWR_ON, Back Feed jumper is off, 3-pin Initiator set to Target, other Initiator 2-pin header is not...