Replacing caps is one of the easier and more enjoyable soldering jobs
on the analogue boards. You want difficult, try replacing a transistor
riveted to a heat sink, soldered into the board with a twist. I have a
vacuum pump which makes de-soldering easy. So easy, if you're not
careful the Cap will just fall out. Caps usually have long leads so it
makes sticking them through the board easy and they are usually pretty
big which means they are easy to handle and have a lot of free space
surrounding them to work. Then re-solder. The thing about caps is,
where there's one bad one, there are likely many others or soon will be
if they are all the originals. If you had a Mac Plus or earlier, you
would be doing yourself a real disservice not to replace all of them at
once -- even when they were new, as they were woefully underrated for
the job required. If you don't replace a cap that is likely to fail
(and at this point in your Classic's life they are), when it does, it
will most likely bring down something else harder to fix in the
process. Don't be afraid of this job -- it can actually be relaxing.
Also, it would be very hard to cause additional damage. Hopefully you'd
be aware enough not to leave excess solder on the board to short
something out. That's about the worst that could happen. Good luck.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Jan Warreyn wrote:
I ask this not
because I'm not willing to replace all the caps, but because this
does not
look like the easiest soldering job one could think of, and I do not
want
to cause additional damage.
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