LC 575 with Broken Drive Bezel Clips, anyone have pictures?

[AEChadwick]

I picked up a 575 on a trip—literally picked it up, i brought it back as Carry On Luggage, god bless the god humor of United Airlines. The little beast survived the trip and is working great; i have already bumped up the RAM & VRAM and swapped the processor to a full 68040. Next up is an obligatory recap with tantalum.

The only damage was the front drive bezel, it popped off in response to one solid bump, must have busted the typically small-and-fragile tabs that were barely holding it in place. Apple engineers of the 90s really seemed to think Plastic Is Magic.

I recovered the plastic from inside the case... but holy crumb, i have no idea how to restore them or fabricate new, i can't tell what went where.

Does anyone have (or has anyone seen) pictures of the front drive bezel showing the clips in situ?

 

[croissantking]

Aww. Hot glue?

 

[beachycove]

That’s been my experience with 575 plastics. Accordingly, and based on what I’ve seen, my advice would be, DON’T TRY TO DISASSEMBLE THE SCREEN! My 575 basically disintegrated when I tried. I’ve also seen a couple of LC630s that have been as bad — same era.

As fly your broken bezel, glueing it back on is one option; sticking some magnets and steel on opposite sides might be another. Or Velcro. I don’t think those plastics are ever going back together again, though, and if they did, they’d surely not hold up to the stresses of holding the case together. You have a Humpty-Dumpty situation, I’m afraid.

 

[AEChadwick]

Aww. Hot glue?

hot glue is for decorating construction paper! might as well repair with glitter elmers... i use solvent glues from my prop making days, the type you have to use outside... in the wind... two towns over.

situation

aww, i've done more with less (ask me about the Quadra 605 case, might as well be made of talc...) but i had a sense of what went where and which bits to reinforce. I should've popped this bezel off, if only to take an archival picture... I could recreate tabs and bits, i just can't visualize how any of this eggshell goes back together, it's stupidly complex.

(solid advice to leave the screen alone: i took off the back to update the fan and that just casually pulled a few tabs along with it, there's no amount of careful that is enough for these cases. Would love to have words with the Fabrication Department circa 1992…)

 

[croissantking]

Don't update anything. Better yet, preserve it inside a cube of transparent epoxy resin so that it's safe for future generations.

 

[AEChadwick]

Don't update anything. Better yet, preserve it inside a cube of transparent epoxy resin so that it's safe for future generations.

inspiration.

 

[Burgertrench]

I'm not game to try to remove the front panel from my 575, but I found an auction for a bezel on eBay that shows the back of a 580 bezel reasonably clearly:

Apple Macintosh Performa 580 588 LC 580 *selten* Frontcase Front Housing Plate | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:start;">Apple Macintosh Performa 580 588 LC 580 *selten* Frontcase Front Housing Plate zu verkaufen.</p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:start;">Die Platte ist in der Mitte gebrochen. Es sind auch...

www.ebay.com.au

 

[nathall]

That’s been my experience with 575 plastics. Accordingly, and based on what I’ve seen, my advice would be, DON’T TRY TO DISASSEMBLE THE SCREEN! My 575 basically disintegrated when I tried. I’ve also seen a couple of LC630s that have been as bad — same era.

My 8500 disintegrates more and more every time I have to open it up for something. It’s painful. Pieces break and fall off if you look at them too long. The front power button went missing ages ago. The entire front, power LED included is held together internally with duct tape.