With any 68k machine, with SMT can caps.... Change them now. Wether you do it your self... or have a buddy do it... or Mike ... or ME... OR at the very least just remove them all and clean up the corrosive/conductive goo, and remove or clip-off the pram battery and throw that away for most machines. Clip the pram battery off for the SE / IIgs. Then at least your board will be protected from any farther damage.
Right now in the Ham radio field... lots of those dudes have the same MOTTO... ( if it aint broke don't fix it )
Witch is great... because by the time their 80's 90's ham radio dies ... its really dead... and talk about even more complex to recover
from fried traces / fried pads/ fried I/C's Ham radios are way more complex then these 68k macs...
I have a KENWOOD TC-50 on my bench right now... man its screwed... Tin cans everywhere... 47uf's 22uf's 10 uf's
granted i got the thing for cheap, I really thought I could make it work and it mostly does work now... except for there is still something wrong
because occasionally it goes into protection and the red led's on the mb light up... and if i bang what looks like a tuner in a metal box the red light will go off or a while, and all will work, only to come back on... so that is telling me cracked or rotted trace some where still.
but once it does work, it works great. I blasted my EZ military Vertical with 100 watts from this rig, and
JT65 receive sites lit up all over the place!
Right now in the Ham radio field... lots of those dudes have the same MOTTO... ( if it aint broke don't fix it )
Witch is great... because by the time their 80's 90's ham radio dies ... its really dead... and talk about even more complex to recover
from fried traces / fried pads/ fried I/C's Ham radios are way more complex then these 68k macs...
I have a KENWOOD TC-50 on my bench right now... man its screwed... Tin cans everywhere... 47uf's 22uf's 10 uf's
granted i got the thing for cheap, I really thought I could make it work and it mostly does work now... except for there is still something wrong
because occasionally it goes into protection and the red led's on the mb light up... and if i bang what looks like a tuner in a metal box the red light will go off or a while, and all will work, only to come back on... so that is telling me cracked or rotted trace some where still.
but once it does work, it works great. I blasted my EZ military Vertical with 100 watts from this rig, and
JT65 receive sites lit up all over the place!