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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-14 14:11:20
today i'm starting what will undoubtedly be a long and fidgety process of fixing my wounded TiBook 867.
For those who don't know, this thing came to me in absolute pieces. LCD hinges broken, top bezel bent beyond belief, dead fans, the list goes on and on. over the past 6-7 months, i've been getting a part here and a part there, getting the frame and everything fixed to match the (astonishingly) perfectly working innards.
today i'm doing the biggest chore of all, fixing cracks in the top bezel frame. click here for pics.
i'll update it as i fix bits.
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Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2007-07-14 19:18:19
Guess it couldn't handle Ubuntu and so it fell apart at the seams? 😛
Well, good luck in getting eveerything back up to snuff.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-14 20:06:38
lol nah, the cracks were there while i had ubuntu on it, but the one on the side near the support screw finally went all the way through so i figured it was probably time for a good old fashioned homebrew fix 🙂
awesome thing is though, on monday i'll be picking up a TiBook, an iBook G3 and a PowerBook G3 (unsure of model) from work as they are "not working". the last "non-working" machine i got from work was a 500MHz Pismo which works perfectly 😛
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Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2007-07-14 20:11:05
That reminds me, I want to get a trackpad from a TiBook and hook it up to the ADB hookup on a 1xx Pb 😛 From those pictures it looks the same 🙂 Yay for ADB!
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-15 18:55:00
alright i've got pics of the first run of epoxy. i'm not sure i like the results, its strong but i dunno...just doesn't look right. i'll sleep on it and see how it looks tomorrow.
click here for pics of it. scroll to the left to see the dc-jack and the wirebrushed top bezel.
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Posted by: MultiFinder on 2007-07-15 19:31:17
That poor PB! Those pics made me sad 🙁
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-15 19:38:45
yeah it was in sad shape when i got it. its getting better though, i promise 😉
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Posted by: MultiFinder on 2007-07-15 19:39:36
yeah it was in sad shape when i got it. its getting better though, i promise 😉 You'd better show that poor thing a nice time, as it looks like it's had a bad life up until now 🙂
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-16 17:40:56
more updates. i finally have an almost complete top bezel. Its still drying, but in two hours once the glue has set enough to handle i'll take the weights off and clean off any excess glue that might have splorched out. until then its just going to sit pretty where it is.
hopefully it'll stick 😛
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-17 17:42:21
Another update, the top bezel epoxy holds great! aside from a few areas of spillage under where i had the clamps, it looks great. i also glued the power button and the cracked cd-port, which i will let dry for a few hours before attempting to re-assemble the laptop.
Who knows, it juts might be finished tonight 😀
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-19 13:08:10
ITS ALIVE!!!!
I have literally just finished putting it all back together and booting it up. and it works perfectly! in fact i'm typing on it running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn as we speak 😀 ...or rather as you read. well i might be logged off when you read....as i type i should say.
is it the prettiest TiBook ever? oh hell no. i overestimated how much epoxy i would need so there are bits of oozed epoxy on a few places, and its still missing the "U" key, and its still scratched up from the previous owner.
that being said, i bet its one of the very few TiBooks who underwent a total disassembly / reassembly and lived to tell about it 🙂
i'll get pics up later. at the moment i want to get the iBook open and see if i can't get it going.
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Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2007-07-19 17:14:05
Can you please, for my sanity just plug in the other TiBook and see how it runs??? Please!!!!
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-19 17:14:52
not until i figure out what the hell i'm going to do with that poor ibook which is now taking up my workbench area :\
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Posted by: Temetka on 2007-07-21 02:57:22
Good job on the TiBook repair.
Why in the name of god would you run an inferior OS on clearly superior hardware?
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-21 11:15:43
what, ubuntu?
i dunno...i felt like it.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-07-22 17:19:18
It is sad to see a Powerbook in that condition. I just got a Wallstreet that I think needs a cold cathode tube replacing. I'm actually hoping it's the inverter board and not the tube. Both parts are cheap enough, but the cathode tube is a bit trickier job.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-09-03 06:58:50
Good job on the TiBook repair.
Why in the name of god would you run an inferior OS on clearly superior hardware? what is wrong with ubuntu ?
at least its not windows
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Posted by: chris on 2007-09-03 07:28:53
Inferior?
How so? I use both on a regular basis and Ubuntu is, on average, as good as OSX once you get it running. Like I said, it's on average, so Ubuntu's worse at some things(installation, some configuration is harder) and OSX is worse at some things(program installation, upgrading)
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-09-03 09:17:02
Inferior?How so? I use both on a regular basis and Ubuntu is, on average, as good as OSX once you get it running. Like I said, it's on average, so Ubuntu's worse at some things(installation, some configuration is harder) and OSX is worse at some things(program installation, upgrading) I can see his point. Mac OS X would surely run faster, given that it's designed specifically for that hardware whereas Linux is designed mainly for x86. And Apple machines are usually more expensive than comparable-spec PCs so it's only really worth paying the extra if you want to run an Apple OS.
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