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Mr Fahrenheit’s conquests
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 08:57:18
Well, I know what I’m doing this weekend…

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Posted by: Phipli on 2023-03-29 09:03:11
Well, I know what I’m doing this weekend…

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The molexes eat solder :s
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Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 09:07:18
The molexes eat solder :s
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Good thing I have a couple pounds of solder on hand!
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-03-29 09:09:37
Good thing I have a couple pounds of solder on hand!
I switched to my thicker (~2mm diameter) solder and had to crank my iron up to about 360°C to get reasonable behaviour / speed. I usually solder at 320°C for most stuff.
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 09:12:05
I switched to my thicker (~2mm diameter) solder and had to crank my iron up to about 360°C to get reasonable behaviour / speed. I usually solder at 320°C for most stuff.

I have some 2 or 3mm solder, and for throughhole I prefer it at 400’c for quick work.
Posted by: olePigeon on 2023-03-29 09:26:10
I made 5 myself. I tried one out on my IIci in hopes that it was my power supply and not the motherboard that was bad, but no dice. 🙁
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 10:31:02
I made 5 myself. I tried one out on my IIci in hopes that it was my power supply and not the motherboard that was bad, but no dice. 🙁

Ugh. That sucks!! I hope you get it sorted out.

I wanted to try out JLCPCB’s assembly service, and had a free coupon. So I bought the minimum required to get assembly and ended up with 60 units.
Posted by: olePigeon on 2023-03-29 10:51:44
Really? My coupon had no minimum. I just ordered 5 with assembly.
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 12:41:28
Really? My coupon had no minimum. I just ordered 5 with assembly.

I had to order 5, but they had to be panels. I could only go (seemingly) a minimum of 4x3 on a panel, multiplied by the 5 panels (to equal 60).

Weird…
Posted by: croissantking on 2023-03-29 16:42:31
Here are some motherboard recaps for posterity.

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What in the world?
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-03-29 18:13:08
What in the world?
On the old forum, I ran out of space posting photos of my recapping work on my collection.

I had asked Cory to remove them so I could continue to function (I literally could not post a single photo or upload as a result). I guess in the strange events surrounding the forum crash, and this request, somehow they files link to random images in the forum database.

That's all I can guess. That's definitely not my photo, and looking through some of the others, they appear to be random. My photos start with the IBM PC-DOS one.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-03-29 22:15:46
What in the world?
What, you don’t like sofas?

Yeah, some pics got mixed up or links got mangled after the forum crash. Don’t know how but I’ve seen it happen in a few threads at least.
Posted by: Durosity on 2023-04-04 09:12:48
That sofa looks like it needs a recap and a retr0brite!
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-04-04 09:17:47
That sofa looks like it needs a recap and a retr0brite!

LOL! Well, it's not mine... so whomever owns that sofa here on 68kmla (whoever's picture that is), they need to clean and retrobrite it.
Posted by: Durosity on 2023-04-04 09:20:59
Maybe they could ship it to you and you could do it for them? Because you love nothing more than recapping other peoples stuff!
Posted by: joshc on 2023-04-04 10:51:34
It also looks like a very r@re sofa. Could’ve been owned by Steve Jobs himself!!
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-04-04 10:54:49
Hah! Knowing how steve basically lived in an empty house for at least the early years of apple, owning such a garish couch would probably have been revolting for him.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-04-04 12:08:30
Hah! Knowing how steve basically lived in an empty house for at least the early years of apple, owning such a garish couch would probably have been revolting for him.
That's why it's r@re!
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-04-04 12:12:45
Yeah but I’ll bet it wasn’t signed by jobs and Wozniak like that yellowed Mac plus that was definitely made while jobs was at apple was?? $2000 OBO 😉
Posted by: Durosity on 2023-04-04 12:37:56
2000 OBO
No low ball offers! I KNOW WHAT I HAVE!!!11

I’m wondering if we should check inside for signatures..
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