Recent content by phunguss

This is great documentation to hopefully keep others inspired to keep pushing through. Awesome job!

For the hinge pin, 2x 3" 10-32 screws and nuts (M5-0.8x70mm or 75 are the metric equivalent and will work interchangeably), The rest of the assembly was mostly salvage screws and bolts. The iPad mounting were tiny m1 or m2 wood type screws.

More case parts for G3 desktop series here.

It was historically only for the month of January, happening annually. It was started before I joined, but I think Mac-Yak started it.

What type of media are you using? Some readers/burners have different wavelength of lasers so they do not like certain + or - media, and if you are using RW, that may be an issue as well.

iFixit has many guides, this one is the basic, probably not far enough to swap the parts. But once you have the hinge removed, it should be pretty self explanatory.

Squirrel !!!

Well, it's not really impressive, more of a wall-to-wall mayhem scene. So many projects that you can't even see the full row of cheese graters and G4's on the bottom. They are supposed to be display shelves, but I have collected too much. Hoarding? No, there are shelves... that means you are a...

Too many wires in the way... and that tester was slow. I kept searching and found a much faster algorithm. I soldered it up onto a perf board. Oh, what a nerd, I used the 568B color code for the 8 address lines. I used some bodge wire to sew in a little label on it as well, 4164. It should...

Yes, you can put a compatible Xeon into an iMac, you just lose sleep capabilities. I run Macs Fan Control to keep it mild, low 30s idle, and it gets noisy when I am crunching Handbrake. 4 cores/8 threads. I assume that is something in the ROM because an intel MacPro with Xeon seems to sleep...

Not sure how expandable the 2014 Mac Mini is compared to older things. The mPCIE slot in an Apple TV Gen 1 can take a 4 port SATA controller, as well as most of the Intel Mac Mini before the aluminum phase (2006 era?). Or if you have a Classic Mac Pro laying around, there are lots of SAS Raid...

Obviously if you look at my avatar, my G4 Rubik's Cube! My iMac 27" 2011 with Xeon processor and upgraded Radeon 4GB video card, I simply call BigMac. I have a Xeon E5-2696 18C/36T in a hackintosh with an R9 Nano that I call "MacPro Jr." because it is a mini-itx in a hand built case and water...

I have been looking for info on this monitor... got it free from Free Geek Minneapolis some time ago when they still had a "free shelf". Sticker says "does not power on". After removing the swivel base (unnecessary), two screws along the bottom bezel from the back, and the three white screws...

Akin to the icecube tray, I save all my clear prescription bottles. Remove the label and I have a nice plastic container with a locking cover to keep my screws and parts in, all various sizes available.