uniserver said: yeah compunerd,   get u a 3d printer,  and start printing up stuff that would be the cats meow! Click to expand... I'd be thrilled to buy a replacement pa…

usually the main filter cap is always good, just replace the brown leaky ELNA ones. the only problem you may find during the process is a corroded circuit board, just spend more t…

yeah compunerd,   get u a 3d printer,  and start printing up stuff that would be the cats meow!

" i don't have any brittle plastic issues with any of my power book 140 - 5xx " Ohhh don't worry,  its inevitable.  

Someone should start a business making and selling new replacement parts for old machines (like cases and fly back transformers). Someone is already making the floppy drive gears, …

uniserver said: PowerBook 100 and portable are only machines worth keeping around all others have plastics that are deteriorating into crumbs. Pb 140 to pb5xx series all will…

PowerBook 100 and portable are only machines worth keeping around all others have plastics that are deteriorating into crumbs. Pb 140 to pb5xx series all will be pile of parts a…

One more: what's the line filter capacitor voltage? It just says 47uF, I don't see a voltage. I am guessing it's 250V?

You can get a 20a max multimeter at harbor freight for a couple bucks, Mallet works good with portable battery packs as well !

More questions, and my $.02: My multimeter has a milliamps up to 200mA, so I might have to go get an extra analog one, plus it won't even give me mA reading on a battery. My multi…

Maybe you can regulate them down to 1.5 amps and sell em to portable users, There is a market for such too!! I'd buy one from you. Portable users need 1.5 amps. 1500ma …

CompuNurd said: Just a question, if they are dead, or "suspicious", I am guessing it is capacitors? What else could it be, they're power adapters. Click to expand... If i…

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Just a question, if they are dead, or "suspicious", I am guessing it is capacitors? What else could it be, they're power adapters.

Good luck with it! You will get them working again!

I did see him do it with a vice, but I didn't know he showed other ways to do it. Thanks!

You checked out https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23399-leaky-elna-capacitors-inside-powerbook-power-brick/ ? shoving in a wedge along the edge is one way to do it. Ferr…

Guess I should specify G5 PSU's lol.

Guess I have bad luck with supplies atx supplies I work on always seem to have at least one mosfet burned up.

Pretty sure most PSU issues are bad caps, I think some have tried to recap them.

I am no expert, but from what I understand, heat is the issue with the logic boards, or was with mine. The chipset is a BGA chip with solder balls/pads on the bottom of it instead …

Thanks y'all! I was afraid when I saw the box, I figured it would be full of broken plastics, as brittle as the casing can get!

OlePigeon, thanks. Yeah, a food dairy. Now the places he goes to eat are going to think he's a food critique. Falen5, What you think, ROM issue or corrosion on the sockets and …

Terrific job cleaning it up and getting something that nice and useable out of it. Glad that the shipping worked out.