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Some good news to report: last night I sat down and began removing corrosion from the pads with an xacto knife. They cleaned up well enough to take some new solder and I was able to reattach the HC132 components that had fallen off. @KennyPowers was kind enough to mail me some extras from his...

How's a dishwasher compare to the ultrasonic cleaner? 🙃

Okay, well I just found a re-capping video from @Branchus where he fixes these exact chips! Not sure how I missed it before, doesn’t look too daunting so I’ll give it a go once I collect all the materials. 🙏

That‘s encouraging, thanks!

I received a IIci recently and I was planning to attempt my first re-cap with it. When I opened the case, everything looked good except I noticed two components which had broken off during shipping. Luckily, I found them inside the case with a fair bit of corrosion. Upon further inspection, I...

I put one of these enclosures with a 128GB SSD in a Lombard G3 with 9.2.2 installed. It’s wild how quiet it is.

thanks for the suggestions! i reached out to a few people so hopefully will have the LCII back in action soon!

Unearthed my first family computer recently and discovered the capacitors leaked. Hoping this can be cleaned up and re-capped. Not sure I have the tools or skills to do it myself, any suggestions on where to have it repaired?