Recent content by mac27

It's now been about 5 months since the initial launch stage of CompleteSet, and the resource has come a loooong way and is now in a much more complete state than ever. I thank everyone who has contributed knowledge to this project. The volume of information is ever-increasing and it highlights...

Yea, this is pretty bad. Has there been a previous outage there of this length in the past? I've only been registered there for a few years so I wouldn't have the context required to judge whether this length of an outage is normal for them or not.

So the other place has been down for what, 3 days now? Or something like that. :/

Yeah, believe me - I actually posted the same exact item and listing on both forums to reach as wide an audience as possible. I happened to get an interested party there, maybe it will also strike the interest of someone over here in the meantime ;) I think y'all do an awesome job running the...

Been down for me today as well. I was in the middle of negotiating a transaction with someone there too, of course. 😑

My project for Marchintosh this year was a video project! I am still fairly new to video production, so this particular episode was a challenge but I learned a lot while putting it together. This is a ~45min long video showing a CIB 20th Anniversary Mac system. I believe it is the longest /...

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...