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PowerBook 180 - 90's bodges & juicy battery acid

Posted by: luRaichu on 2024-01-17 13:33:09 I got my PowerBook 180 in the mail yesterday and opened it up as I noticed the trackball needed cleaning. Inside I found two stickers from previous repairs in '93 and a bunch of ancient battery acid stuck to the case, which I scraped away using an X-Acto knife. There's at least one bodge here- looks like the FPC cable for the battery thermistor was torn at one point and fixed by soldering wires to the remaining cable. I removed the unnecessary remnant of the FPC so it won't catch on the daughterboard. I'm curious to know what repair shop or chain worked on this machine previously.

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