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One of my Holy Grails found!

Posted by: Gary_W on 2009-05-10 12:20:48 I finally have a conquest worthy of mentioning! I recently acquired an SE/30. Turns out the battery is all corroded and damaged the motherboard, and the hard drive is dead but I don't care, because.....it has an Xceed color 30 and an Xceed grayscale 30 in it! Anyone ever recover from a corroded battery: or is this my board to practice soldering caps on? Gary P.S. Xceed manuals available here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9930

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2009-05-10 13:08:16 Better clean that in a hurry and hope no traces have been cut. Either way a SE/30 can be replaced, the add-on cards (which would not be hurt) are the real prize.

Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-05-10 16:54:38 Was the Xceed the holy grail, or the other device?

Posted by: Gary_W on 2009-05-10 17:18:12 Was the Xceed the holy grail, or the other device? Ok, I should have said 2 Holy Grails (for me anyway). 🙂 Gary

Posted by: Temetka on 2009-05-10 20:04:11 That's some pretty bad corrosion you have there. I'd suggest pulling the battery ASAP, and desoldering the battery cage / terminals and cleaning the mobo. Make sure no traces are damaged and that those lower chips whose legs are covered in corrosion can be cleaned up also. Nice score on the Xceed and SE/30 also.

Posted by: joshc on 2009-05-10 22:56:44 That's just horrible, and I thought the corrosion in my IIci battery holder was bad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wackymacs/3503975466/

Posted by: Dennis Nedry on 2009-05-12 11:49:47 That's not too bad. That will most likely clean right up. Scrape it off first, then go back over it lots of times with alcohol-soaked Q-tips until they stop turning brown. Then you know you got basically all of it off of there. It's somewhat important not to turn it on at least for very long until you clean it pretty well. It doesn't look bad to me. I had one way worse than this (a 6100) and just scrubbing with Q-tips like that did the trick. Battery goop had also gotten into several small surface-mounted chips like that and they turned out fine.

Posted by: z180 on 2009-05-13 11:24:10 Congatulations you can now run A/UX ! (if you can cure your patient)

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