It was present on both when I got them but the 145B got worse after the airport security didn’t treat it too well. The 170 has not worsened though. Hopefully I can find a new bottom casing panel. Maybe I will design and print one but that’s a ton of work
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Immaculate 180 - preventative maintenance / battery ideas
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That one got a lot of superglue though.I don’t have a clue how to do that lol. I will have to try on some old broke plastic prices and not something I care about.
I know it is several cracks and not just one on the 145B which is quite annoying. I might just buy another 100 series to get the bottom case and have the spares.
Quick update over here:
I still haven't gone into the display bezel, I'm just throwing a little salt over my shoulder and opening it real gingerly.
But I *did* build a new battery pack. I didn't have a lot of time, so I remixed a case on Thingiverse to just make a big empty box, then I used QuikSteel to place some electrodes, and wired up an off-the-shelf 6v NiMH AA pack. It's not the best battery life, but the construction was extremely cheap and easy. I will take some photos and share later, but here's my WIP emptied out case on thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6114478/files
I also replaced the venerable IBM 120MB drive, which still booted and went to sleep and everything, with a new ZuluSCSI RP2040 mobile version. It's *mostly* working great, but I'm having trouble with it failing after it goes to sleep. I did also add a small variation that I threw on my Mac Classic one too: a piezo speaker on the external LED port! This adds a satisfying click to let you know the drive is doing something. I don't know which piezo I used, just one from the junk bin. OK thanks, more later.
I still haven't gone into the display bezel, I'm just throwing a little salt over my shoulder and opening it real gingerly.
But I *did* build a new battery pack. I didn't have a lot of time, so I remixed a case on Thingiverse to just make a big empty box, then I used QuikSteel to place some electrodes, and wired up an off-the-shelf 6v NiMH AA pack. It's not the best battery life, but the construction was extremely cheap and easy. I will take some photos and share later, but here's my WIP emptied out case on thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6114478/files
I also replaced the venerable IBM 120MB drive, which still booted and went to sleep and everything, with a new ZuluSCSI RP2040 mobile version. It's *mostly* working great, but I'm having trouble with it failing after it goes to sleep. I did also add a small variation that I threw on my Mac Classic one too: a piezo speaker on the external LED port! This adds a satisfying click to let you know the drive is doing something. I don't know which piezo I used, just one from the junk bin. OK thanks, more later.
OH one other thing: after I opened the bottom case, the two standoffs that held the silver bracket that goes over the floppy drive and hard drive had crumbled before I even touched them. So far, the other standoffs are intact, but I see what folks are talking about with these things getting brittle.
Yeah you’ll have always lost a couple of the silver shield standoffs on any of these. I’ll bet a couple would be broken even if you opened up a NOS one at this point.
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