I tried converting everything over and booted the SE up in the Plus case. Amazing how many of these Apple parts are just interchangeable bolt-ons, no modification required.
Unfortunately the rear bucket case from the SE has more of a tilt at the front where it meets the bezel, so there's a 1cm gap between SE rear bucket and the Plus front bezel. The only solution is to cut the entire back out of the SE bucket and mould it into the Plus bucket case, which involves epoxying it into place, body filling it, sanding it back, priming it and then painting it. It's a lot of hassle, there's a lot of precision machining involved and the process is not reversible. Any changes are permanent.
Damn though, that process drew a fair amount of blood.
I'm thinking the solution may be to just sell off the remaining 68k's on MacTalk Australia and "hang up the multimeter" for the very last time. If there wasn't so much fabrication work involved, maybe, but I don't have the motivation to work on these machines considering the amount of work they'd need to be repaired or converted.
Unfortunately the rear bucket case from the SE has more of a tilt at the front where it meets the bezel, so there's a 1cm gap between SE rear bucket and the Plus front bezel. The only solution is to cut the entire back out of the SE bucket and mould it into the Plus bucket case, which involves epoxying it into place, body filling it, sanding it back, priming it and then painting it. It's a lot of hassle, there's a lot of precision machining involved and the process is not reversible. Any changes are permanent.
Damn though, that process drew a fair amount of blood.
I'm thinking the solution may be to just sell off the remaining 68k's on MacTalk Australia and "hang up the multimeter" for the very last time. If there wasn't so much fabrication work involved, maybe, but I don't have the motivation to work on these machines considering the amount of work they'd need to be repaired or converted.