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The area of the ADC CRT display shown in the close-up (second) "after" photo is part of where the stand slides around on the bottom of the unit, so there will naturally be tons of scratches there at all times. The acrylic of the housing just rubs against the acrylic of the stand; so you can see...

Interesting; I don't doubt it though. Agreed that the softer the material the better. Ideally a very soft and forgiving fabric of some kind.

I've typically just used paper towels, and that always worked pretty well. But you could definitely also use a dish rag or other towel and that would probably work fine too.

Yeah, unlike the G3s I've never personally heard of any iMac G4 overheating issues, though (as others have stated) they do run warm. But as long as you're keeping the thermal paste fresh, it shouldn't ever be an issue. I've run my 15", 17", and 20" all day in various cases and have never had...

Thanks! Great info. I am going to see about repairing the stock PSU first, if that is not possible will explore other options ... hoping it is just a dead/blown cap or something like that.

Thanks. I'm definitely gonna try to repair the OEM one if I can. Did that solution end up being able to also provide the power needed for ADC, including the CRT?

Well it appears that either the PSU or VRM for my Cube has given up the ghost - I'm leaning towards PSU, but not yet certain. The Cube doesn't show any signs of life at all. Worked fine about a week ago but no dice yesterday or today. No lights/chime/anything, with or without anything...

Got the new inner bezel installed. It went pretty well; took me about 3 hours (including time to document it) but obviously very much worth it. The original one was more brittle and yellowed than I'd previously known. Old (left) versus new (right) - feat. one of several broken screw...

Well my gray iMac bezel arrived recently - woohoo! I'll be taking on this project within the next week or two ... and will be recording it as well, as I plan to produce a video on this which will be the first one ever posted to YouTube. (which is something that's been requested of me for quite...

The new-original replacement fan arrived today and I got it installed. It is sooooo much quieter - much much better than the other random one, and blends in very well now with the PSU fan. So that was a few bucks well spent, thanks @greenmachine .

Thanks, I'd assumed NOS OEM parts wouldn't be available, but nope. I picked up one of these lots and will try that out instead.

Just documenting a quick little repair/maintenance item I took care of today. The main case fan in my Quicksilver was nice and quiet, but it had developed a really annoying rattle with age. I found a suitable replacement on Amazon that has the right dimensions (120mm x 120mm x 25mm). The...

OK. That means it's a Quicksilver, so it doesn't have the notoriously loud AcBel 400W "Wind tunnel" PSU from the MDDs.

I mean, the Quicksilver and MDD have very different case designs (particularly the front and rear), and the internals are completely different (including the PSU). So you shouldn't need any hard disk to determine which one you have. Negative. There were several MDD models with a single...

The famous "wind tunnel" PSUs are in the MDD G4s, not the Quicksilver. Which do you have? If it's an MDD, then yes, the PSUs are basically all in need of a recap at this point. I recently had mine done through the repair service on eBay and had a good experience with that (it was working...