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Posted by: NE555 on 2019-01-22 17:40:51
This board shows the capacitor leakage really nicely thanks to being so dusty

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Posted by: PB145B on 2019-01-22 18:23:21
My second SE/30 was just like that when I popped it open for the first time.
Posted by: Blake on 2019-01-23 09:22:23
Dust in the mac world is both your friend and your enemy. Dust gets in the floppy drive it doesent work properley, you have to much dust in the fan it sounds awful, you have to fix one of those hellish-like quantum lps prodrives and you get to much dust on it its ruined. But if you have leaky caps dust may be your best friend spotting out all the corrosive cap fluid.
Posted by: beachycove on 2019-01-23 19:57:23
What’s that board. IIvx?
Posted by: NE555 on 2019-01-24 07:23:38
Yes
Posted by: CC_333 on 2019-02-16 12:52:25
When I got my Q840, it had been left out in the SoCal desert for a week as an art project.

It was totally full of dust, but surprisingly, the cap goo (they leaked quite badly) was completely absorbed by the dust, so there was no corrosion!

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