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  1. BPearce

    Adventures in 3D Printing with Wood PLA

    I manage a small Apple Authorized Service Provider, and as such, we have customers coming and going and signing pieces of paper. For some time, I've had it in mind to have something interesting and attractive to put pens in at the front counter -- I'd been thinking of the Classic Mac form, and...
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    Suggest a good "Beige" PLA for Classic Mac

    I had the misfortune to discover that there is now also a slightly larger version of the Tiny Mac that I made not too long ago -- and of course, now I need to build another one. I'm hoping for recommendations for a good match for the Beige of the early Mac models. Everything I've seen is either...
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    I Print Six Colors

    Very pleased with how this turned out! It took some doing to find a reasonable match for the six colors — the yellow could be a bit more golden, the green a bit more saturated, the blue a bit lighter — but in context, I think the colors work well together. Yellow, green and blue aren’t colors...
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    Without a Floppy EMU, how to get files to my Macintosh 512K?

    I have somehow succeeded in installing a ROM-inator Resurrections Kit in the Macintosh 512K I've been working on. (Thanks, Kay Koba!) I'm far from confident in my soldering skills -- they are still very much a work-in-progress -- but JDW's video (thanks, JDW!) went a long way toward getting me...
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    Mac SE Restoration Project -- advice wanted!

    A functional Mac SE (FDHD) was passed along to me, and this has set me along the path of a restoration project that I’ve had in mind to try for some time. I’ve replaced a few faulty RAM modules to get it properly working again, and I’ve also disassembled and cleaned the Floppy Drive and...