I recently scored a graphite Clamshell iBook G3 466mhz model that was "untested" for very cheap.
Despite being shipped in a burlap sack stuffed inside a USPS medium flate rate box it arrived perfectly in tact.
And it even worked just fine for the first few hours I had it... until it stopped.
It...
I was watching a video the other day where someone mentioned that shipping CRTs with the glass down is typically the best.
Plastic is most likely to break at the mounts, and the sheering force of dropping it with the machine upright is much harsher than the pressing force of the CRT on the...
I forget who made it, and what model it was. But there's a kit to retrofit a cheap toaster with some really good temperature control.
It's basically designed to retro fit into some generic fairly large toaster and turn it into the perfect small reflow oven with incredibly temperature accuracy...
My co worker has a 2010 iMac that also has a dead GPU.
We opted to get the slightly higher end 5670 along with pimping out the rest of the system.
But I should give baking the old GPU a shot. At the very worst I could potentially upgrade my 2007 iMac with this old GPU.