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I was born in 1971 but never grew up with Commodore. Still, I've always been rather enamored by them. Many school friends I had back in the early 80's had them. And while my first home computer was the 128K in 1984, I still was extremely excited to see the factory tour video below I...

@frontein1 Your work is so incredibly awesome! 👏

Great ot hear! So I guess it is then a decision that boils down to this: Do you want more volume, or do you want stereo? Because it's unlikely someone would hack their plastic case to fit two of those LC575 speakers into the front/bottom area. And if you therefore want stereo, you'd need to...

If the rod is truly used ONLY for structural support reasons, then it shouldn't affect anything electrically if left broken, I wouldn't think. The flyback I had with a broken rod was mounted to the board very solidly prior to my removal of it. Meaning, people with broken flyback rods shouldn't...

So that's the gotcha. You must choose one of two Analog Board types for the LCD kit. I recently converted my 68.4V standard VGA mod to the 84V 13" Hi-rez Mod. The 68.4V Mod was great for 640x480 at 32,768 colors, but only with my LC575 Mystic Motherboard. Now with the 84V mod though, I can...

@ESM-NL I do apologize, but I'm still rather confused, perhaps because I've not read all the posts pertaining to this topic (which are mostly on the 68kMLA.) Are you saying that with the Stock CC Motherboard in combination with the LCD kit, you get only 16 colors at 640x480 (which is the only...

@Marconelly Before cutting anything, I strongly suggest you reach out to that YouTuber (video in your opening post) to tell him your experience and ask him how he was able to reassemble it without using a dremel. Because if he did use a dremel, that wasn't in his video, so he might want to...

Not that the LCD kit displays only 16 colors, but that your custom-built Analog Board, when driving the stock CC’s CRT (not the LCD) can only produce 16 colors due to its limited VRAM?

Thanks, @ESM-NL ! The LCD looks good. It does seem that it’s not displaying its native resolution though. Can you confirm?

Now that Flickr has gone back to giving us faithful users another punch in the nose with their 1024px photo resolution limitation, I thought it best to present some hi-rez versions of my original SE/30 pics here, from back in 2006. That was the era before SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI — when everyone...

Absolutely! If you want to run OS X, more specifically Tiger, on a PPC Mac, you really do need something 1GHz or faster to make it "fun usable." The G4 Cube had a stock CPU speed of 450MHz, which was adequate for OS 9, but not for OS X. I later added 1.2GHz and faster CPU cards in my Cubes...

I have that Noctua fan in my machine and never found it to cause any issues with the Standard VGA mod. I later switched to the 84V mod, and while I do notice very faint and hard to see screen instability, that happens even with the read case removed, which means no fan is connected at all...

Okay, friends. You can now install a BRIGHTNESS KNOB onto your LCD Color Kit....

Thanks for sharing! I have a BabyFace PSU for the SE and SE/30 which uses those Meanwell power modules, and what I found was the modules' 5-volt rail quite nearly at 5.0v at the output of the module, but once it reached the motherboard, due to resistivity losses in the wiring, the voltage was...

The video I'm making won't eliminate the bother of buying the parts, but the installation has now become much more straightforward. Reading the documentation had me worried, but in the end, I figured out the most streamlined way of doing it. With that said, it would be great if the parts could...

Fascinating. So basically he removed a speaker from his 575 and put that into the front UNDERSIDE of the Color Classic like this... If you have only the single stock speaker, that is a really neat idea. Of course, I have Stereo Mod which uses another one of the stock speakers to make the...

@Dave928 I see what's missing... But I do know you have a clear knob printed. Fear not. My Brightness Knob video is nearly finished. Been working on the thumbnail today... No, my clear knob not backlit. I used a flashlight to shine down on the knob from the inside to take that shot...

I call them "hot air stations." Despite having decades of soldering iron experience, I never owned one until a couple years ago. Now I use it a fair amount, but you must be very, VERY careful around plastics, and don't expect Kaptan tape to come to the rescue every time. Multiple layers of...

I have a bad Quantum drive that I tried the freezing trick on a year ago, but it didn't work. And while I have used "baking" of video cards (in late 2009 iMacs) with tremendous success (I have multiple YouTube videos about it, actually), I have never attempted it on any hard drive.

Please review the photos in my previous post and closely examine where the metal rod enters the epoxied area of the main body at top. How deep does the rod go into that epoxy? Not sure if I will ever get a spare rod from somebody out there to repair mine like you do, but I just want to prep for...