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I finally removed it, indeed it started to leak, luckily it only affected the plastic around and the connector a little.

To conclude the thread, after getting network working again, I did a last live showing off all the various software that was installed: Arachne web browser FastTracker II Windows 3.1 with Calmira II, and a whole lot of useless tools. Arachne doesn't like Google, but FrogFind works fine...

After some fiddling with the bad contacts and adding some washers to raise the board, it seems more stable now. It had some odd software installed: Calmira II, Chartist, FastTracker II, Arachne…

Two weeks ago I took this 486 away from its 25 years sleep at my mum's attic… It was quite well stored and covered, except little did I know back then about Varta, Destroyer of Worlds. I then spent way too much time cleaning it, removing components… checking and fixing traces…...

Maybe someone in Europe could get some, then ship them to the US. Seems shipping was free to France for a 2kg spool last time.

For hard plastics like ABS the UHU Plast works quite well (it's acetone based), but it can get out of the crack and leave marks on the outside. Also, I usually reinforce the parts from behind with some blister pack plastic also with the same glue.

Indeed I noticed the VAIO PCG-F707 I just got didn't only have the rubber feet that leaked, but also the CMOS battery that's well hidden inside the very front of the case, not even under the keyboard or some accessible place. I'll have to open it all to remote it…

Has it been determined yet which pins are used for the rotation switch?

While some people managed to recreate rubber pads with 3D-printed TPU, and it can look quite okay, I thought it could look better, and I wanted to explore other methods. I've had the idea for some time, for another machine, but I had this Color StyleWriter 2200 around with feet turning into goo...

The pinout is linked to in the first post. Basically Vout = max(Vin, Vbatt) (with some threshold effects though) ; /RST OUT is 0 if Vcc < 4.2V or /MR is down ; /PFO is down if PFI < 4V or so. I've been busy with other stuff, I need to finish the test gear then hopefully I can get some shipped.

Well it allows replacing broken chips (they are close to caps usually) with known good chips because they are new chips still in production, not some "new old stock" that possibly got de-soldered from a battery-bombed logic board that might work or not for who knows how long.

I'll probably sell a few batches first but yeah.

Something like https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004707554342.html or https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32972142300.html ?

Thanks!

Schedule has been published!

And it's actually not that hard to solder, just needs some flux. Seems to work fine. If I use RoHS solder for the IC it should be even quite easy to remove it in one piece if needed.

Oh dear, now I know what to do if I'm bored :)

I have so many other stuff to do that I couldn't help but add support for hollow versions with Unicode Art for the angled corners.

Oops, looks like I zapped one value in the cylinder args somewhere and it made a cone, fixed. I added a margin slider. Need to go back home to push it though. Edit: fixes pushed.

Seems to work in this LC-III…