Hi all,
So this is my first post, but I've been searching through and reading the posts for a couple of weeks, so I'd like to start with a big thank you to everyone who has contributed their knowledge (sorry I didn't make a note of the usernames to thank you personally) it's made my first classic Mac service a real synch!
I got my Mac a week ago and it runs absolutely fine, but I wanted to preserve the more at risk parts so bought a new hard drive, and a 4mb ram upgrade. When I opened it up, it was really obvious that it was the first opening since sale: thick black dust coated absolutely everything to the point you couldn't see cables or chips anymore! I decided rather than just remove the drive and ram, I'd give it a good old take apart and clean. Thanks to the guides here I was able I take it all apart, down to drives, logic and analogue boards, crt, video card and case without any problems.
I cleaned everything with an ESD brush and compressed air. I noticed that the bottom of the EM sheild had a large-ish patch of liquid residue, but I couldn't find any corrosion to the chassis, logic board and I can't see any signs of errupted capacitors or battery leakage.
I'm just wondering, whilst I have it in parts, if there are any steps I shoud take to look after it for the future? Any risky capacitors to watch/ should I look into replacing the battery as a preemptive step? I noticed that the 800k drive is absolutely buried in dust to the point I wouldn't want to use it, but in itself it isn't a problem as in the short term I have an external AE 1.44 drive that works fine, and long term I plan to put a 1.44 drive in the SE and replace the floppy chips on the logic board.
Any tips greatly welcome!
So this is my first post, but I've been searching through and reading the posts for a couple of weeks, so I'd like to start with a big thank you to everyone who has contributed their knowledge (sorry I didn't make a note of the usernames to thank you personally) it's made my first classic Mac service a real synch!
I got my Mac a week ago and it runs absolutely fine, but I wanted to preserve the more at risk parts so bought a new hard drive, and a 4mb ram upgrade. When I opened it up, it was really obvious that it was the first opening since sale: thick black dust coated absolutely everything to the point you couldn't see cables or chips anymore! I decided rather than just remove the drive and ram, I'd give it a good old take apart and clean. Thanks to the guides here I was able I take it all apart, down to drives, logic and analogue boards, crt, video card and case without any problems.
I cleaned everything with an ESD brush and compressed air. I noticed that the bottom of the EM sheild had a large-ish patch of liquid residue, but I couldn't find any corrosion to the chassis, logic board and I can't see any signs of errupted capacitors or battery leakage.
I'm just wondering, whilst I have it in parts, if there are any steps I shoud take to look after it for the future? Any risky capacitors to watch/ should I look into replacing the battery as a preemptive step? I noticed that the 800k drive is absolutely buried in dust to the point I wouldn't want to use it, but in itself it isn't a problem as in the short term I have an external AE 1.44 drive that works fine, and long term I plan to put a 1.44 drive in the SE and replace the floppy chips on the logic board.
Any tips greatly welcome!