Recent content by wottle

I've been collecting vintage Apple hardware for a few years now and kept running into the same problem: nothing out there really fits how collectors actually think about their stuff. Spreadsheets are clunky, generic inventory apps don't seem to capture the types of things I care about in my...

Not sure where you are getting it printed, but I printed a Mac SE brightness knob in stainless steel from JLC3DP and it turned out great. I put the part from the original post in and shipped to the US would be about $11. Which seems like a pretty good price for a stainless steel version.

Ooh. I didn’t think about the yoke position. I bet it’s slipped back like you said. I kind of want to test this with an old Mac Plus CRT I have laying around to see if I can replicate it. I did message the seller but they don’t seem the type who wants to be messing around inside the...

Yeah, I tried searching general CRT for “severe tunnel vision” and “spotlight like picture on CRT” and didn’t turn up anything. I’ll probably post in a CRT / TV forum and see if anyone has any ideas. But the list price right now is $4k, so unlikely anyone will be able to verify if we...

I was looking at FB Marketplace for anything interesting and came across a Lisa. The price is too high, but what really struck me is the video showing it powered on and working. The CRT seems to have an issue where the viewable area on the screen is limited to a circle (cut off at the top and...

Yeah, I've considered just running mine as a service and offering account and segmenting every user's information, but there's simply too much of a challenge with storing images for users. First, there's the storage costs - My collection of 290 devices is using ~4GB of storage. My NAS couldn't...

I posted recently about my inventory management system which I re-wrote in a pretty short time, heavily with the help of Claude Code. I would not have had the time to produce what I did because it would have taken me months to years of all my free time to produce what I did. But it seems like...

Yeah, it was largely decorative so didn’t have to worry about the weight / impact of sitting down on it all the time, but I suspect a proper thickness board between the leg and the case would keep it from bucking. As for the shelving, I considered stacking to make my shelving out of it, but...

Ha. It was made as a bench, with cedar planks, joined together in the edges, routed to fit the handles of the G5’s. However, it is currently being used to store additional devices and books in my collection.

I know it's been a while but I rebuilt things from the ground up as my Marchintosh project. I added some features that I know some people are going to hate (AI generated product images, a LLM backed chatbot that you can ask about your collection), but the AI features, as well as the shop...

I've stopped using sunlight and peroxide for retrobrighting after a couple of streaky results. My guess is that the sunlight can dry out the peroxide creme and it can affect the lightening process making it too strong in some areas and too weak in others. The sun's UV rays and heat simply make...

I’ve not had that happen in any of my testing. Does yours have the gray plastic pin guide down in the connector? I’ll try to do some testing of my units I have here with and without the pin guide and see if I can recreate the issue and see if the pin guide helps or hurts. If you have one...

I was trying to get out in front of assembling the next batch for @jcm-1 and my HDI-45 port I was using to hold pins during assembly is pretty worn out and the pins aren't staying put like they used to. I also could never get it to install all 5 rows at once, which slowed assembly. I then...

OK, so the full color resin prints came in. They're good, but might be better with some adjustments. The gloss finish really softens the edges so iy doesn't have the sharpness of the original logo. The matte one retains the crispness of the angles, but doesn't match the gloss of the original...

Yeah, I only have 8MB in mine. Really hoping someone comes up with a solution, because the solutions I've found either have no documentation or the parts needed are essentially unobtainable.