I'm wanting to get my PB180 back up to snuff. I've left it in a cabinet for awhile, and the battery had swollen up and is now leaking acid out of a crack in the casing, but thankfully I had removed it from the 'Book a few months ago. I'm in the process of getting another battery, but I had a question about the battery that's on the interconnect board. Is that worth replacing? Or should I just let it be? It's a plastic wrapped button cell with solder tabs on it, wouldn't be too hard to replace (If I could source a replacement, that is).

I'm also still looking for a replacement elevation foot. I think they're the same, the left and the right, but I'm missing the right one.

I'm also considering getting the external monitor adapter and setting up a designated desk space for this machine, but wanted to know if anyone had experience with the 180 as a desktop? I've got the 120MB hard disk and the ram upgraded to 14MB. If I got a SCSI CD-ROM drive, would this be a viable desktop for some classic Mac stuff?

Lastly, back to the portable side of things, I've read quite a lot about the 180 screen issue with the tunneling effect. My screen currently has this issue after an hour. I was using it to write papers when I first got it, but the screen started to be an issue. I've read two interesting things that I haven't seen tested, though. One was freezing/refrigerating the panel for awhile, and the other was to sit the panel in rice for a day. Both of these probably referred to a possible issue of moisture trapped in the liquid crystal, and as far as I know, nobody has tested these other than their initial posters. Would you suggest doing one or the other? The rice couldn't hurt, honestly (the freezing, though...).

Thanks in advance.