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Fantastic work, @OneGeekArmy ! Love the icon too!

We should perhaps say, "with the Console5 diode." Because the parts I purchased from Mouser did not require any drilling, and the legs on that particular diode were pretty meaty too. I guess yours was just meatier still. I agree though that drilling isn't something most people would want to...

@jibsaramnim I'm both pleased and shocked that resistor measures 100Ω. Great you don't need a replacement, but that Blue or Violet 5th band at the end is unusual. It's not unheard of for high precision resistors like 0.1% tolerance ones, but those are expensive and your kit was cheap, so it...

I saw this post on FaceBook today, and I simply had to add a title and captions... I believe Steve is looking at the back side of the Cube, but the shot makes it look like his head is inside, which is absolutely hilarious, especially when you book at the facial expression of that bearded guy.

For those of you who don't already know, @slomacuser did a fantastic write-up on LEM here: https://lowendmac.com/2025/from-macsketch-to-macpaint/ It's an absolute must-read. No ChatGPT summaries! It's worth your time to read in full. Thank you for spending so much time to bring us that...

You're right! Thanks for pointing that out! Specifically, these should be opened in modern Photoshop... Then you should add sharpening... Then with some lifting of the Shadows on the NuBus Card, with slightly increased Saturation, and with Blacks adjusted in Levels, and with a 2x...

Thank you for the short video demo! Sure, glad they improved those pointy index finger to icons. The upper left corner pixel in the capital letter “A” in the AIDS menu is interesting, and I see why they improved that font with smoothing. Interesting to see how “Mix“ load to San Francisco...

The Apple artwork is kind of neat. When opening the IIci EPS file in a modern version of Illustrator, for example, it displays like this (grayscale)... Zooming in all the way on the Apple logo on that IIci shows how crude their shadowing was back then... But when zoomed out, it looks...

Unfortunately, the magnets used inside the Color Classic are not the same. They are flat and glued in place on the CRT. No twisting tweaks possible.

Not sure why I came across this thread today, but if you closely examine the photo in the opening post, you will see the displayed content is in fact NOT ROTATED as evidenced by the fact the left and right edges are perfectly straight up and down. If the entire screen was tilted, the left and...

Thank you for your kind words and for the added info. Normally, it's best to retain the stock capacitance value when possible, unless you have a schematic and know the operation of the circuit in question. But capacitors normally have a 20% tolerance, so if your replacement measures right at...

And here is the fruit of my labors: I hope it helps those of you who've been following this thread but haven't yet made the time to try it yet. It's worth it. A huge shout out to @YMK for having started this thread, and to @This Does Not Compute for chiming in with his experience. Special...

You are right to not be trusting. I dislike the modern tiny caps that replace the old huge one's because the ESR is often lower on the old caps. But the biggest issue is cooling, for boards that get hot. The bigger the cap, the more surface area, and the easier it is to keep them cool. So...

@Elemenoh Have any photos or videos of your recapped Pivot in action? In terms of major jobs like this, I'd advise getting a tripod and keep your camera (or even iPhone) handy. That's really how I got started on YouTube in terms of my Public videos. You see, I'm forgetful and I wanted to...

Could you please measure resistance on the light green resistor shown in the Console5 kit below? I only just now noticed it is 5-band, and unless my eyes are deceiving me, that means it is the wrong value... BRN-BLK-BRN-GLD-BLU = 10.1Ω, 0.25% tolerance The correct resistor for RL22 is 100Ω...

Very surprising. Not sure about the right answer. QuickDraw is disk intensive, and benchmarks do load from disk. The only way to know if that has something to do with it would be to boot from a RAM Disk with System Info and Speedometer on it. You'd need a fair amount of RAM to do that...

Your CPU score of 8.69 in Speedometer is really good. I made these benchmarks of the MacEffects Performer, 33MHz FPU XTAL at left, and 16MHz at right below. I am always shocked at how little difference that 33MHz FPU makes. I made these last year in the WarpSE thread: We were testing...

@Kay K.M.Mods very graciously made time today to measure voltage at the side of RL62 that connects to the Cathode side of DL21 and DL22. He had the stock diodes installed. He measured 19.7v. That is a great relief to me because my measurement was about 19.3v when using the 5W replacement...

The 040 CPU requires a lot more power from the Analog Board in the CC than the stock 030 CPU motherboard does, and if your Analog Board and Motherboard are not both recapped, you will have unexplainable problems. I strongly recommend OS CON caps when recapping your LC575 motherboard because...

The main reason I suggesting "3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation", with 3D Printing appearing first is because this thread has predominantly become about 3D printing. Some may feel this thread is about 3D stuff exclusively pertaining to MacEffects cases, but in fact we have talked about a...