Recent content by wottle

I did notice that on a second Mac II I ended up getting. The odd thing is that Apple didn’t continue that on the IIfx. If it was that important, it feels like they would have changed it going forward. A side note on my machine that was having issues, I ended up selling recently but before I...

Man, I wish I had found that before. I had a similar experience with a Mac II (I thought it was completely dead, but it turned out to be a bad speaker so I couldn't hear the boot chime). Also, a bad graphics card meant no video... If you are OK with a les original option, I created this...

FYI, if anyone made their own (unlikely), I added a new 3d printed part for better ensuring the pins line up properly. I'm installing them on the next batch I'm sending to @jcm-1. But I've also added the 3d file to the GitHub repo for people that might want to make their own. Note that due...

Highly recommend just building your own: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/powerbook-1xx-usb-c-pd-adapter.3827/post-32308 You can use this adapter to connect 24v to the laptop(s): https://www.bixpower.com/CNT-C11-p/cnt-c11.htm?srsltid=AfmBOoq-bTZr8Okl3mOpL9WSzEKl66Xa5-A9XvinL5rqQGD4_9jWrvD0

Apologies. I was out of town for work. Looks like it sold.

Not the cheapest price, but not bad and you’d get some other spare parts. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DfxKSh2QR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I've been fighting with a 550 that worked just fine a few years ago and then last year when I went to power it on, it does not boot. I get the power LED, fan, some sounds from the SCSI HD, but no picture or boot chime. I recapped and cleaned the board, same issue. I tested a known good Color...

Got the screws and nylon washers in. I was able to get it to work, but I think using socket head cap screws made it harder. Basically, I had to insert the knobs in their holder with the hex key not fully pressed in, then rotate the knob while pushing the hex key in with tweezers until it was...

I assume you're talking about the resin case being in sunlight? I've heard of yellowing of resin prints. I'm likely to try to paint it when I have it all set up and mostly working. I've read that there are some almond colored spray paints that do a good job of matching the IIc color. (e.g...

Got my replacement case parts optimized for resin. with the updated orientation for the hex key, It's the original front case with the glue / press in slot for the nut on the hinge, so we'll see how it holds up and I may reprint just the front if the superglued nut doesn't withstand the stress...

Might be worth trying to at least confirm that the ground pins are where the schema expects them to be. Would at least increase the confidence level a bit.

Could you clip the arms off the connector so you could insert it the proper way? Of course, that assumes all the pins are actually the same and its not a whole new pin layout... Obviously that only works if you can find a new logic board, and verify nothing in the LCD was also fried.

As part of the massive barn haul I picked up last year, there was a Dell CRT that had a Trinitron tube in it, but had no power button and the base was missing. The monitor looks like it was designed to be used with or without the base, so I decided not to try to replace the base. But having...

Finally got a chance to put the other cap on the keyboard. Unfortuately it took 3 or 4 areassembly attempts of the keyboard to get it assembled and all keys working (it's a membrane KB and there was something, a crumb maybe, under the where the D key that was causing it not work after...

Are you taking about something like helical inserts? https://a.co/d/7kPyx3O If the resin material is brittle, would this helical coils not break the tiny threads it creates when it is inserted? it feels like the pressure needed to keep this display upright shouldn’t be too much and so I feel...