I found SE/30 boards in EBAY in the past, although it took a few months if patient waiting. Because I live in Japan, I needed to wait for a logic board only auction, seeing the Air shipping for the entire Mac is cost prohibitive.

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Here on Ebay Belgium, UK and Germany, there's very little vintage Apple hardware to find. Like you say, if a Compact Mac comes for sale, it's a complete one. Parts are almost impossible to get here in Europe, Ebay USA is better but things like an SE/30 logic board is very rare.

We could use a fellow collector in the USA that buys the complete Mac and sells us the parts we need. Wouldn't that be a great project ?

I believe there is stuff that really gets damaged by ESD

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I do agee that ESD can damage boards, however I still have to see my first case. Maybe the dead SE/30 board is my 1st case as visually, under a huge magnifying glass of 20x, I see nothing wrong with it.

I do pack all my parts very well myself in anti-static bags, not something I can say from the boards that were send me to me.

It's something I definately recommand to everybody.