A couple of years ago i part exchanged some Atari floppies and get a Powerbook 5300cs (i have no Atari and really wanted a 5300 instead)
The 5300 wasn't in good shape, hinges were mostly gone, the PSU was having a bad contact (logic board side) and the battery was leaking his acid all over the place.
The good thing is that the 5300 fired almost first time
Repairing the hinges was done, logic board was removed and some soldering was done to get it booting without tinkering with the PSU...but i never get something good...just average.
On the battery side, i was lucky enough to find 5 minutes from home a brand new unit, still sealed for free but the unit never get fully charged :-/
So time to have a look at it, here is the board:
And here is the new Panasonic battery
Oops, one pin is missing from the board, the old battery corroded the pin so hard that it broke away from the connector
I have no spare, so i have to fix it.
The only thing i have is a paper clip !! so here i go, first thing first i should remove the pins from the board:
Cleaning the board, and soldering the new pin goes next
Everything is back, time to put the 5300 together and give it a try:
Seems to work will let the new battery a couple of hours and see what's going on. :?:
The 5300 wasn't in good shape, hinges were mostly gone, the PSU was having a bad contact (logic board side) and the battery was leaking his acid all over the place.
The good thing is that the 5300 fired almost first time
Repairing the hinges was done, logic board was removed and some soldering was done to get it booting without tinkering with the PSU...but i never get something good...just average.
On the battery side, i was lucky enough to find 5 minutes from home a brand new unit, still sealed for free
but the unit never get fully charged :-/ So time to have a look at it, here is the board:
And here is the new Panasonic battery
Oops, one pin is missing from the board, the old battery corroded the pin so hard that it broke away from the connector
I have no spare, so i have to fix it.
The only thing i have is a paper clip !! so here i go, first thing first i should remove the pins from the board:
Cleaning the board, and soldering the new pin goes next
Everything is back, time to put the 5300 together and give it a try:
Seems to work
will let the new battery a couple of hours and see what's going on. :?: 
