Quadra 650 Battery Bomb Repair

Elemenoh

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Oct 18, 2021
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Now on to the enclosure and frame. You can see from the photos below the rust was quite bad. I used wire brushes on a drill and sand paper to get most of the rust off and sprayed all affected areas with rust-converting spray paint, leaving key areas uncoated to maintain ground. The CD ROM bezel tab broke, so I repaired that with some two-part plastic bonding super glue. All that's left is to replace the rusty and broken CD-ROM, retrobright the front bezel and install new RAM sockets some time in the future. For now this one is mostly sorted!

Rusty enclosure and EMI shields. Not shown is the drive cage which also had a bad spot of rust.​

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Rust knocked off with a wire brush on a drill along with manual sanding​

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Parts sprayed with rust converter
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Put back together again​

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