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Yeah, Biology class finally came in handy!

Yeah, my wife loves me running my old machines in the kitchen after I fix them up!

The longer cable worked well. It is much longer than necessary, but makes it very easy to plug in / remove. Only slight challenge was that the connector on one end wasn't keyed, so you just need to make sure you plug it in the proper way then attaching the edge connector. After plugging it...

Got it painted and everything looks great. Now to try to recreate the model sticker and powerPC logo.

So, I decided to keep the quirky platinum doors from the Mac TV to keep it original. And I was reading up on the black Mac SE/30 and realized that the real life version was platinum, and it was only black when they recreated it for the Watchmen movie. So I think I'm going to leave my spare SE...

I may or may not have forgotten to turn off my soldering iron one day and then left for 5 hours. I thought it had an auto cut-off, but I was wrong. Tip was in pretty bad shape...

Also, for documentation purposes for anyone else that needs to disassemble the drive to recap or fix the drive eject issue, here is how you take it apart. First, remove from the front of the computer. There's a tab underneath that you lift up as you pull the drive out. It has edge connectors...

Ok, so I figured out the problem. That arm inside the drive that I showed in my video was the problem. There was a torsion spring (couldn't think of the word for it in the video) that was supposed to keep the lever arm pushing down. It had fallen off it's mount point and so the lever arm that...

The CD Caddy is actually embossed (or whatever the opposite of embossed in (carved out of the plastic). Debossed? Anyway, I think it would still be visible even if painted. Also, as discussed in my other thread about the CD caddy getting stuck in the drive, there's actually two doors. One...

The other question I am contemplating is: do I paint the CD drive doors? One one hand, I think it would make the Mac TV look much better. On the other, it's not stock and the platinum colored CD door was one of those quirky Mac TV things.

On that note, anyone know the font used for the model names on the Mac SE? I think I might give this a go with my spare SE case.

Love the DOS Compatible label on the front! I ran into problems getting my DOS card to work, and I reseated the CPU and it was working great again. Glad you were able to track one down.

Yeah, I meant to post a video with the original post, but got caught up in work things. Here’s a somewhat long video trying to explain the behavior. The door mechanism itself: And the eject where it doesn’t move the door out of the way:

It did get me thinking. With my wife's vinyl cutting machine, I feel like I could make a stencil in the right font for the model number. And I have a Mac SE case that doesn't have innards I could do a trial run on... It would look a bit like one of those defense department black Macs. And I...

I'm trying to fix up my Macintosh TV and the CD ROM would not take a CD initially. I know the AppleCD 300 drives are notorious for their capacitor leakage, so I removed the drive, took the shield off, removed the board and could see a significant amount of damage from leaky caps. I cleaned up...

Yeah. I think he plugs it into the exterior floppy port later in the video when the case is off. And he alluded to a possible change to solder a connector internally so the cable could be routed inside the case. At that point, you could throw on a standard 512k back case and it would be very...

Yeah, I'm going to maybe try some more targeted documentation of the behavior to see if I can see a pattern. On the plus side, it seems to be running well now. Newly painted mouse and ADB cable to match the keyboard and case, working TV tuner card, and a replacement Sony remote to control...

I did recap the analog board. I also swapped an analog board / CRT from a Performa 575 that was working last time I had the logic board in it and the behavior was the same. Also, the issue seemed to start (inconsistent ability to power on) when I recapped the first set of capacitor I had on...

The Mac TV shipped with the exact same remote as you used with the 630. RMC-A1. The TAM came with the boxier, more traditional remote shown on the left in my picture above with the generic Sony credit card remote. I may have a new revised search term to see if I could find an original...

Fortunately, I spoke too soon. These Macs (for reasons I don't understand) sometimes need to be plugged in a bit before they'll boot. I left it plugged in and powered on (without pressing the soft power button) for a bit and went back and it booted up. My bodge wire work is horrendous, but it...