certainly seems tobe pretty high praise for the drives, i think i'll pick one or two up.  I already have plans to expand my collection.  though my next planned acquisition is a powerpc and has IDE drives

I think I'll go with the tantalum surface mount caps for the logic board, as i feel there are only so many times you can solder on a board before it dies, so i might as well reduce the risk of needing to replace any caps in future.

I'll get the usual electrolytics for the analog board though.

Having peeled off the various stickers that were on there, the machine definitely needs a visit from the retr0brite fairy, it's very yellowed, but not evenly