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It has. I retrobrighted it during my rehab a few months back. It had the typical yellowing when I got it.

I reprinted by BlueSCSI tray in the Polar Filament Retro Platinum and the color is a much closer match to my computer's particular shade. This image is the original in PolyTerra Muted White This is the new one in Retro Platinum. Much better match. Thank you so much for taking the...

Thanks for doing this. I just ordered a spool.

This looks very similar to the issue I just dealt with. I suggest you read the whole thread I've linked below. It isn't very long and there is some good information from some very helpful people. In the end, replacing one transistor, BU406, solved the wobbly screen problem I was having. It...

The replacement BU406 transistor has finally arrived and I've made the swap. The change isn't difficult, provided you have some basic level of soldering skills. If you're like me, you'll struggle for quite a while to get the old transistor to desolder and then build up some ugly blobs around...

Well, that's embarrassing. You are 100% correct. Thanks for setting me straight. I'm going to go ahead and order some replacements and hope I can replace it without damaging anything. There are three solder connections and they're the poke-through kind. That and the attachment point to hold...

My curiosity got the best of me and I went looking for the HOT. I don't see a Q3 or a BU4906 on the analog board. I guess that means the Mac Classic is different than the SE/30. The only thing I see on the analog board that bears any similarity to a BU4906 is the item I've circled. If I read...

Thanks for the information. I'll take the computer apart this weekend and make sure I can find the transistor.

Thanks. I've actually replaced the fan with the JDW Noctua swap. It's possible I did a bad job. Maybe I should briefly remove it and see if the screen wobbles at all with it gone.

Thanks for the tip. I'm doing some searching on the internet to try and figure out what a horizontal output transistor is and which is the right one for the SE/30. I found a schematic for the Mac Classic online. The document identifies the HOT as Q3, which shows Q3 as BU406. Digikey tells me...

Yesterday I was playing on my recapped SE/30 and noticed the screen has a very minor horizontal shake or wobble. Just a couple of pixels wide. It is sporadic and not constant. I let the machine run for a while and it didn't seem to affect it one way or the other. The main board and analog...

Thanks. I’ve seen you doing your system and drive performance tests and wondered what programs you were using. I’ll grab the ones you mention. I’ll also grab the games though I don’t think I’ll do much gaming on this computer.

I've finished my amateur restoration of my computer by riding on the shoulders of everyone here. I've upgraded the RAM, serviced the floppy drive, replaced the innards of the power supply, replaced the fan, replaced the hard drive with BlueSCSI, and installed the CR2032 batter module to avoid...

I'll leave that to museum curators and people such as yourself who are passionate about originality. I'm just a dude who's interested in an obsolete piece of consumer electronics that is well past its usable life. Thanks the efforts and knowledge of the people on this board I'm able to get the...

You're a good guy for your immediate replies. That's the video I'll be following when the time comes to do the fan swap. I have the FLX version of the fan and I am confused by the text blurb that displays at 29:10: FLX version includes a 4-pin HDD pass thru cable, so you would not need to...

Hello again. I've received the repaired boards back from Thomas at Amiga of Rochester, and with the help of videos from JDW, Branchus, and a few others, I was able to reassemble the machine and set it up in the test configuration with the longer cables as illustrated by JDW. That video is also...

Thanks JDW. I was just watching your CRT adjustment video. The computer does have a hard drive but I didn’t notice the noise in the short time I ran it. I’m primarily switching to the BlueSCSI because I know that spinning platter based drives will fail and replacements will be hard to come by...

Thanks JDW. I’ve watched your power supply videos, and many others you’ve done. I don't think I’ll be able to recap so I was planning on doing the Baby Face PSU swap. Maybe I could try recapping the power supply and if I jack it up at least there is a modern replacement available. I’ll also...

Hello. I recently purchased my first classic Macintosh, an SE/30. I'm more of a mechanical guy and am well aware of my limitations when it comes to electrical repair so I've shipped the logic and analog boards to Thomas at Amiga of Rochester to recap and resolder. Prior to disassembly, I...