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radams
Starting Member
18 Posts |
 Posted - 22 Jan 2002 : 14:44:30
A Quadra 660AV...A teacher gave it to me today. He had originally bought it but it fell quickly into dis-use, I guess. He had it in his garage and gave it to me in payment for installing new RAM in his bondi iMac for him. The case is in rough shape. I havenmt had a chanmce to plug it in yet.68k Macs Liberated: 5 1/2(One's not working yet) |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2002 : 16:14:00
Very cool, good work!If nothing else, a Q660av makes a great still-video capture box. Hook it up to your VCR/DVD/analog camcorder and make stills for a website! 666th poster to the
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jan 2002 : 21:52:59
660av...nice scoreNot as nice as the 840av, but nice nonetheless  --------------------
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ |
radams
Starting Member
18 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jan 2002 : 21:59:14
Well I got some time to look at it...The HD is bad, but other than that, it's pretty nice. The case is slightly yellowed but not too bad.68k Macs Liberated: 5 1/2(One's not working yet) |
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 20:06:03
Ugh. I wish cases would never yellow, then 68ks would always look very pretty! The slight yellowing on the front and back plastic on my 650 clashes with the completely-platinum painted metal in between the two (and no - I will not paint it!)--------------------
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ |
radams
Starting Member
18 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2002 : 20:42:25
Is there anyway to remove the yellowing of a case?68k Macs Liberated: 5 1/2(One's not working yet) |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 09:56:16
Not really. It's some kind of sun-bleaching, and there's no way to reverse it. My solution is to spray paint everything black. Can't go wrong that-a-way.666th poster to the
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 18:54:10
ugh. I still can't believe you did that to an 840av...blasphemy, simply blasphemy. Don't worry, though, I won't beat you with my Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ or that 2x4...--------------------
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2002 : 20:21:59
Trust me, its look sooooo much better than a yellowed front fascia with a scratched/dirty platinum metal case. Yuck!I do need to get some better quality paint, though. This 89 cent Wal-Mart brand stuff scratches off too easy. Time to hit up the hobby shop for some quality stuff! 666th poster to the
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2002 : 12:14:55
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I do need to get some better quality paint, though. This 89 cent Wal-Mart brand stuff scratches off too easy. Time to hit up the hobby shop for some quality stuff!
What kind of surface prep have you been doing? A how-to on case refurb/redecorating might be good content for our site. I remember several old mag. articles and there has to be a lot of material in related fields to apply to 68k's. I've been wondering if a light sandblasting with really fine grit and repolishing the plastic might help. Buffing with soft-scrub seems to help where I've tried it. I'm also wondering how well industrial powder-coating might work for a black-mac-hack (or silver or gold or...... ooh! ooh! ooh!..just hit me! surface gilding! cofer the entire box...with variegated leaf, or copper leaf or.......
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