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And again someone on the Discord pushed me in getting one more thing modeled… I left my calipers at the fablab so it might still need tweaking… Source here, you can get STL directly from cadhub for example.

If you can measure the openings I can patch the code :-)

The other day someone posted a nice picture on Discord of the "PowerDoor™" replacement ports door for the PowerBook 100 Series, which includes holes for both the power button and the modem port. I knew I saw an existing model for the regular door, so I quickly made a mod in OpenSCAD, which can...

Instead of finishing my many other projects or doing the overdue paperwork, yesterday I modeled this part that was requested on the Discord. There's an "FDM optimized" version that puts the notches as indents to allow printing with top on the bed. @SuperSVGA managed to get a good looking...

Ok, now you'll make me think about it all night long instead of sleeping… I have a plan… 🤔 Btw, I already had measurements taken, the horizontal pitch is (11+7.8)/(2*(6-1)) = 1.88mm and the vertical pitch (4.5+7.3)/(2*(5-1)) = 1.475 … which I'd round to 1.5mm.

I'm afraid the FCI one doesn't have the correct pitch, looking at the drawings. I remember looking at those without much luck either. Which one did you need Ron, cause I'm planning on recreating a male one, but I wasn't thinking about the female part. I suppose I could look into it too.

So, I checked with the older Powerbooks I have, and they are even closer to 7012 (Basalt Grey), I think we'll have to go with that.

I should dig the older PBs I have from the box, but I'll be quite busy for the rest of the week.

So, I got my RAL K7 palette… and spend like 3 hours trying to match the PowerBook 520c colors… No exact correspondence sadly. I took photos using two distinct lamps including a full-spectrum one, I'll post some later. Here are the candidates I currently have: For the light color: - RAL 7012 /...

Oh have a package to pick up…

I found an interesting technique which gives good results for flat surfaces, and more work for the rest… The small version here has a curve in the middle of the front face which doesn't help… These units received several tests though… Other options I haven't tried: painting, glossy or matte...

I suppose the iPhone cameras are color corrected in some way. Not like it'd excuse the serialization they put on the parts but eh.

@jcm-1 has one, don't remember the brand… As for apps, not sure I'd trust them… I don't have an iPhone anyway.

Also, a website like Encycolorpedia can help finding Pantone and RAL equivalents, it shows the delta from one to another: - RAL 7044: close to Cool Gray 4 and 6, - RAL RAL 7024 / Graphite Grey: ~= Pantone 432 - RAL 7022 / Umbra Grey… - RAL 7016 / Anthracite Grey: [19-4005 TPG / Stretch Limo ...

I only have a 520c and earlier machines. Well unless we want to build our own manufacture for filament, in which case we could as well just build molds too, that's the best we have. Well, some manufacturer seem to produce Pantone filaments, but only for a subset of it. And the Pantone...

I missed the previous RAL colorchart on that local second-hand site but I just ordered one. I'll need it for the ORIC red anyway.

I'm wondering what others use as surface finish on their prints, do you leave it as-is, do you use smoothing sprays (haven't tried yet)? I experimented a bit with sanding (here on the bottom part on the right one, but I find it too matte compared to the LC case), then hot air + pushing against...

Damn that means stocking 4 ColorFabb rolls just for that 😰

Well my PB 520c has two colors for the case, and neither is exactly the same as the PSU anyway…

Anybody already checked for a filament color match for 680xx and pre-G3 PM PowerBooks? I might soon get a RAL K7 color chart, so that might help.