Color classic guts into Classic case?

[wood_e]

Well FedEx smashed up my favorite compact mac in transit to its new owner. So Is it possible to transfer the innards into a CLassic case? I would assume no, but wanted to check.

TIA!

 

[LCGuy]

With enough time, money, skill, and the right tools, anything's possible.

But it won't be easy. The interior of the Colour Classic is, as you'll no doubt already know, completely different in just about every way to that of the Classic.

 

[wood_e]

I see - there's a non-working CC on ebay... might snatch that up for a transplant!

Thanks for putting that idea to rest!

 

[Bunsen]

For one thing, the CRT from the CC will be too long (and probably too fat) to go into the Classic.

 

[wood_e]

Looks like I'm going to be parting it out. Anyone need a good analog board?

 

[TheNixer]

What all is wrong with the CC? Is it just the case? My CC has a high pitched squeal to it, I suspect the CRT.

 

[tomlee59]

What all is wrong with the CC? Is it just the case? My CC has a high pitched squeal to it, I suspect the CRT.

CRTs don't, as a rule, emit sound (other than the one-time "hiss of death"). If the sound is coming from the speaker, it's probably a leaky capacitor somewhere in the audio circuit. Another common source of high-pitched sounds is the switching power supply. Loose magnetic components (e.g., transformer coils) can vibrate.

If it really sounds as if it's coming from the CRT, it may be the deflection yoke. The horizontal deflection frequency is probably too high to be audible, but a harmonic of the vertical deflection frequency would be well within the audible range. If one such harmonic happens to coincide with the mechanical resonant frequency of some loose thing, it could squeal.

 

[stevep]

I've heard flyback transformers make a high pitched noise before too.