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    SCREWS for SE & SE/30 Analog Board to Metal Chassis

    Here's a spreadsheet with all of the fasteners I purchased for my SE/30 Reloaded build, which includes every screw in the machine. Some of them are different than the originals but all have the same thread diameter and pitch...
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    shipping from Japan

    If you're buying through Buyee, definitely pay the extra $15 or so to have them repack the computer. If you don't, they'll just put a new shipping label on whatever packaging the seller used, which may or may not be adequate to survive international shipping. I had a Color Classic arrive in...
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    2.5" -> 3.5" SCSI adapter

    I think in most cases it's 0.
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    LC 475 Pad repair

    Since it's the negative pad that's come off the board, you should be able to get away with tying that side of the capacitor into any other nearby ground.
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    Rust inhibitor for Mac SE shield?

    I had all the internal metalwork in my clear SE/30 nickel-plated too. In the end it cost me $100 but looks amazing just like @Elemenoh 's photo. I think it's worth it (and if you have other frames to get plated or can bring on some friends who do) the incremental cost to add more isn't much.
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    Not enough power for Blue SCSI Wifi

    My educated guess as to what's going on is that the USB cable is acting like a makeshift antenna. The built-in antenna on the Pico isn't great, and the SE/30 has metallized paint on the inside of the case for electromagnetic interference reasons (aka FCC compliance). That's a recipe for poor...
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    Recapped SE/30 - Occasional Horizontal Screen Shake

    This is the part I used for BU406 when I built my SMC recreation analog board: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/onsemi/BU406G?qs=vNc2DXHODiKv4UObSEVN0A%3D%3D
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    Apple PowerCD Base Station / Dock Teardown

    The PowerCD is just a modified version of the Philips CDF-100. The Philips unit played CDs and Photo CDs, but didn't support SCSI. An educated guess: Based on what I'm seeing on those PCBs, they're getting the raw data from the laser assembly and doing all the "processing" (the larger board has...
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    IIsi Power Supply unknown part

    I don't have an exact part number for you, but I measured L202 to be 0.4uH. Inductors of that value appear to still be common today, though what current rating that one is capable of I'm not sure.
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    Ram 30-pin SIMM socket where to buy?

    It's likely supply and demand. I've long suspected those sockets are NOS parts, and now that there's increased demand and supply is shrinking, they're going to price them accordingly. Long-term, we'd need someone to bankroll having a manufacturer start making the sockets again -- but given the...
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    Remove and socket SE/30 CPU?

    I couldn't remember what it topped out at. Either way I had it set to something like 75-80% of maximum.
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    Remove and socket SE/30 CPU?

    Pretty sure it was the stock 1mm nozzle, with the heat set around 4 (out of 5). I don't remember ending up with any particularly stubborn pins, so maybe I just got lucky!
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    Remove and socket SE/30 CPU?

    I've removed a soldered-on CPU from an SE/30 with just the FR-301, it's totally doable. You can buy new sockets here: https://www.peconnectors.com/sockets-pga-cpu-and-memory/hws4514/
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    Restoring a Mac SE 5011

    Here's a BOM I put together for building Kay Koba's SE analog board recreation PCB, but it's valid for original boards too: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PwaqRaqlt8nKqXaVAkaXogw2BTpqbcQ4xXxHejsVk5U/edit?usp=sharing
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    68kmla lockout

    I'm locking this thread as it's already diverged from its original purpose. Tinker Different is not affiliated with 68kMLA and we can't answer to how their operations work.
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    [Help] Bolle Twinspark/MacCon won't connect to network.

    Sounds like a layer 2 issue to me. I'd try setting up port mirroring on the switch interface you have the Mac connected to and see what shows up in Wireshark.
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    Bolle's SE/30 Board Recreation - Pick and Place / BOM Discrepency

    Not sure which Google Sheets BOM you're referring to, but here's the one I put together when I did the group buy: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nx-KRaF5cdhcJSdrX42SqrtQcKcN2UZhHbEiThW19gc/edit?usp=sharing
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    Massive (filthy) find in South Carolina

    Your IIfx has the same weirdness as mine: All of the SMD caps are tantalum except for those two electrolytics over by the RAM slots.
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    Microscope recommendations

    The biggest one is that the ring light that ships with it, at least for my unit, has its own (somewhat short) mains AC cable. I ended up finding an otherwise identical ring light on AliExpress that's powered by USB and can plug into the USB-A port on the back of the microscope. The other, lesser...
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    Microscope recommendations

    I use one of these and while it's not perfect, it works great.