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Much like LazarusNine,  I had my own disaster. Two issues: 1. Had my iron set for 650F and was using some solder tweezers (Hakko FX-8804-02) thinking it would be easier to get the SMD caps off.  It was, but it left residue in between the pads.  I think I got a little too rambunctious trying to...

Happy New Year! I got my hands on a lot of old computer gear recently.  None of it is that interesting on the Mac side of thing (some interesting Amiga pieces...) but there are a couple of serial modems that were used with classic (compact basically) macs.  One is 14.4K (a Line Link 144e for...

I'm a relative newcomer to the world of Compact Macs. I've been posting in other threads about the Classic II I have recently gotten into working shape. I've almost got everything ready and am just waiting for the SSD to come in the mail. Right now my Classic II is in my little "vintage...

Greetings. I'm attempting to put a 2GB SSD into my Classic II. (Evil plans were posted in another thread here.) I've initialized and cloned the drive via my Wallstreet (I picked up a USB bus for the card bay, and it works nice once I found the drivers) I have all the proper mounting equipment...

Greetings. Now that my Classic II (right now running 7.0.1) has been recapped and is working, I'm looking to put a larger internal drive in it. I have Jag's CD of classic Mac stuff and I'd like to have a drive big enough to hold the whole thing, and then some. I also have an old Wallstreet...

I am happy to report that after a couple of months of planning and research, I've managed to replace the caps in an old Classic II. I soldered the new caps on last night, plopped the logic board back in, turned it on, and it actually worked. I'm floored. (We'll see if I did a good enough job...