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LC-II Shine! I mcdermd'd my LC2, POLISHED! Nice :)
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-24 17:29:32 So I received a LC475 from mcdermd early this year. When i got it, and opened it up, it gleamed and sparkled like stroll through bronners on the 4th of july (http://www.bronners.com/) LOL. I asked him, what did you use on this thing man?!?! He said Pledge. So today before the wife went to the store, she asked me if there was anything i wanted? I said, Sure Lemon Pledge. Started using the stuff and sure enough it works. We should make an official shine your vintage mac day 🙂
Posted by: CC_333 on 2013-03-24 20:52:49 Hi, I found ArmorAll to work well, too (except it tends to leave a gunky residue which collects dust, so it's really only good in a relatively dust free environment (which my shop is NOT)). If used judiciously, though, ArmorAll shouldn't pose much of a dust problem (especially on plastic pieces). c
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-24 21:32:10 It's now all back together, looking spiffy, with a fresh set of stock caps installed.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-03-24 22:34:57 Looking good, my friend. It doesn't take much, does it? It's an old motorcycle trick for ABS plastics.
Posted by: onlyonemac on 2013-03-26 10:39:54 Did you do the case as well? I would be keen to see the case. We should make an official shine your vintage mac day 🙂 Mine's already shiney!
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-26 10:53:28 I still have to clean the case, For that I like to use Comet Cleanser and one of those non scratch scrubbies in the bath tub. 🙂 I'v yet do do any retrObrite, That Comet, + elbow grease, does good enough for me, I was able to get that IIsi I sold to ClassicHasClass Back to like new, It looked outstanding.
Posted by: Brett B. on 2013-03-27 06:38:14 13 years ago when I got into collecting Macs, I never thought I'd see the day when someone polished an LCII...oh the times, they change :lol:
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-27 07:45:53 What's not to like about the lc-2? Pop in a NIC /w fpu. Git R up to 10 whole megs of ram. Also the plastics do not get brittle like some of the other mac's Mic in 16 Mhz of 030 P O W E R They are a nifty lil machine! MIght have been a LC for low cost, but was not LQ Low Quality, Thats for sure 🙂
Posted by: Brett B. on 2013-03-27 08:07:30 Just that they were one of the most intentionally crippled Macs ever made, and the fact that there were a bazillion of them out there in the schools. They were so common around here that we used to buy a pallet of them for $5 and take a stack to the shooting range. Call it blasphemy or whatever, it's not like we were killing an endangered species or crushing a classic car. I kept one simply because it sort of completes my stack-o-pizza.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-27 08:47:04 buy a pallet of them for $5 and take a stack to the shooting range thats enough to throw OOM into cardiac arrest!
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-27 13:09:31 take a stack to the shooting range I just keep thinking about 4mb ram simms, LC- NIC's / 68882 FPU's 256k or 512k Vram Simms Scsi Hard drives and bracket's Speakers, Cooling fans 2mb sony super drives LC PSU's All those parts blown to smithereens. most all of those parts could have been used on other machines as well. shame shame shame…. 😛
Posted by: BeniD82 on 2013-04-26 20:43:30 I wonder, when you "pledged" your hardware, did you apply it directly to the circuit board, or did you apply it onto a cloth and wiped carefully? How exactly did you do it?
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-04-26 21:00:05 i hosed it down, kinda half-assed wiped it off, then took it out to the air compressor and blasted off any of the extra with the air gun.
Posted by: Brett B. on 2013-04-29 10:19:46 shame shame shame…. 😛 Meh. If I had kept them all, what would I have today? A huge stack of yellowed, extremely slow, old computers that all need caps, a lot of cleaning, and floppy drive lube. 75% of them would need hard drives as well and many would have exploded batteries. If I had a stack of Quadras, compacts, etc instead... it would not have happened. There has never been any reason to collect a bunch of LCII's because they have zero redeeming features. Likewise, I would have no regrets blowing up a stack of slot load iMacs, or x200 Power Macs either. They have absolutely no collectible value outside of spare parts for better models.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-04-29 10:33:58 Meh. If I had kept them all, what would I have today? A huge stack of yellowed, extremely slow, old computers that all need caps, a lot of cleaning, and floppy drive lube. 75% of them would need hard drives as well and many would have exploded batteries. well i guess you could say that about any 68k mac.
Posted by: Brett B. on 2013-04-29 11:38:16 I wouldn't say that, there's a significant portion of the Beige Mac lineup that is pretty collectible and worth keeping...and the vast majority will agree with that. The ones I mentioned have no "cool" factor, there were a bazillion of them built, nothing unique, no quirks, nothing that makes them stand out to a collector. I keep an LCII simply because I have most of the other pizza boxes and it completes my set.
Posted by: James1095 on 2013-05-06 22:51:48 The vast majority of them got unceremoniously dumped into landfills or run through recycler shredders after they had outlived their useful lives. The only reason most of this stuff is collectible today is because most of what was made has since been junked. I remember parting out a stack of Apple II machines back in the early 90s. They sold pallets and pallets of them for peanuts at school auctions. I was always one to salvage potentially useful bits rather than just chuck stuff though. For a while you could hardly give them away. It was like VCRs and VHS tapes are currently, today's trash is tomorrow's sought after collectible.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-05-06 22:59:10 yup i used to dig through UofM dumpsters filled with maxed out se/30's SE's MacIIfx's all with nic cards installed. just to get to PC parts in there like 13 years ago. my buddy had half a brain, he went back with out me and got like 30 SE/30's and stacked them up in his apartment. he ended up getting evicted, so they ended up in the dumpster anyways. Oh well.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-05-06 23:09:05 I think from a vintage software aspect, the LC-II is a dam cool machine. I use to hate them. I'v grown to like the reliable/well-made lil buggers. Others must agree with me, because I'v recapped a crap load for people so far. They have all invested their hard earned money in me and their LC - Series machine.
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