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Greetings, Wondering if someone can help me to replace the Y3 Crystal one of my three broken SE/30 boards I'm trying to repair. Afraid that the legs just couldn't take an ultrasonic cleaning and broke off right at the base; I tried replacing it with one of these...

Hi Folks! So a friend asked me to take a look at a Mac IIsi he had purchased a while back. Unfortunately the board has been damaged by a previous recapping job gone bad. There were multiple missing pads and trace breaks when he brought it to me so I told him I would do my best to try to fix...

Hey there, So recently someone asked me to racap a couple macs for him. No problem there but he also asked me to figure out why his one Mac Plus wouldn't turn on properly. As soon as he brought it over it was easy to see the issue, on the back of the unit in clear text was written 220-240V well...

Hey folks! I picked up a 40 dollar SE/30 that needs a little TLC. It was completely dead but after recapping I get part of a video signal. Seems like some lines are corrupted. I found one bad trace going to ue8 and repaired it and now the video looks like this (see photo) it's improving but...

Hey folks, I recently picked up a few monitors and unfortunately one of them has a broken hinge. I looked for a 3D model for the 15 inch Apple Studio Display hinge but couldn't find one. Long story short my brother in law did up a STL file for me and we prototyped it on a 3D printer. Now that...

Hey folks! A friend of mine saved this Apple 15 inch (Blueberry) display from the recycler and asked if I wanted it. Of course like any sane person I said YES lol Unfortunately this one didn't come with a power supply so I have no way to power it up for testing. I was wondering if one of you...

Hello, So having watched Action Retro Shenanigans with SATA cards in Beige Macs I recently decided picked up a SATA controller card off ebay for use in my G3 minitower. I plugged the card into the tower and added a SSD, booted into MAC OS 9.2.2 and could see the drive no issue. I initialized...

Hi there, Well here I was all excited to install my new CPU thinking I'd open up system profiler to see a 400mhz G3 cpu upgrade listed. Yet when the system booted up and I went into the profiler all I saw was 266Mhz. So what am I missing? Attached pictures from the sale where he clearly...

Another day another new problem on my old hardware :) So not even a week ago I had a Biege G3 tower with working CD-Rom, Floppy, USB, and Zip Drive. Today everything works BUT the zip drive. I'm hoping the drive isn't dead but I know Zip Drives are kind of notorious for that. In any case here...

Hi there, Between parts for my various other projects I decided to boot up one of my C64s and verify that a disk drive I'm about to sell is still working. Well the good news is the drive is working the bad news is that the C64 has developed a couple bizarre flaws. 1) The disk drive was...

Good Evening, So I've been picking up a few systems locally and wanted to start recapping them for either my personal collection or to sell/trade. I've had a number of successes including two Mac Classics, a Classic II, and a Color Classic. All were "working" before the recap in that they at...

Hi, Just trying to verify an assumption on my part; Is the port on the back of this Zip 250 drive for SCSI? I can't find any indication on the drive itself that it supports SCSI but I can't think what else this port would be for if not for SCSI. Is anyone able to shed some light please?

Hi there, Taking a break from my Amiga 500 restoration I thought I'd turn my attention to my LC 575 restoration. I previously received a 575 via mail that arrived in, shall we say, less than ideal condition. I managed to salvage a few parts from it including the logic board and I've slowly...

Hi there, I'm having an issue where I connect a hitek keyboard to (any) Amiga 500 and the machine simply will not boot up. Unhook the keyboard and everything is a okay. I'm thinking/hoping it's a short on the keyboard PCB but wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Any suggestions on the...