Just in case you might check the forum again, I thought I would answer some of your questions.
I have actually read about people having success baking their LCD panel, although not long lasting success. I don't remember the temp but I think it was 160F or so. If the moisture could be evacuated and the layers properly sealed, it would probably be just fine in the long run.
Mine gets terribly obscure after 45 minutes. It is now at the point where I can't use it for writing so I bought the PowerBook video cable and a era-appropriate Apple CRT. I am still setting up the system but the 180 is no slouch for classic Mac software...at least not for software designed for it. Without PCMCIA, its expansion is limited but you can daisy chain a bunch of useful SCSI peripherals and even Ethernet (which will make things easier).
You can use an external SCSI hard drive and map virtual memory to it, which will speed things up. Or more simply, run RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler from Connectix. A PowerPC PowerBook might be snappier but there is a classic elegance on the 1XX series.
The soldered battery is the PRAM/clock battery. Some machines are very fussy about the state of those. Mine will not boot unless the (flat) main battery is removed. Pushing it in shuts the system off. If yours sits on a desk plugged in a boots reliably there shouldn't be a reason to replace it.
The feet come up on eBay from time to time. I do think they are interchangeable but I don't know for sure.
I have actually read about people having success baking their LCD panel, although not long lasting success. I don't remember the temp but I think it was 160F or so. If the moisture could be evacuated and the layers properly sealed, it would probably be just fine in the long run.
Mine gets terribly obscure after 45 minutes. It is now at the point where I can't use it for writing so I bought the PowerBook video cable and a era-appropriate Apple CRT. I am still setting up the system but the 180 is no slouch for classic Mac software...at least not for software designed for it. Without PCMCIA, its expansion is limited but you can daisy chain a bunch of useful SCSI peripherals and even Ethernet (which will make things easier).
You can use an external SCSI hard drive and map virtual memory to it, which will speed things up. Or more simply, run RAM Doubler and Speed Doubler from Connectix. A PowerPC PowerBook might be snappier but there is a classic elegance on the 1XX series.
The soldered battery is the PRAM/clock battery. Some machines are very fussy about the state of those. Mine will not boot unless the (flat) main battery is removed. Pushing it in shuts the system off. If yours sits on a desk plugged in a boots reliably there shouldn't be a reason to replace it.
The feet come up on eBay from time to time. I do think they are interchangeable but I don't know for sure.