Re: Single-drive Mac startup disk.

2019-02-09 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Adobe Acrobat 3.0

2019-02-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Upgrade 7 to 7.1

2019-02-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Upgrade 7 to 7.1

2019-02-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Single-drive Mac startup disk.

2019-02-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Single-drive Mac startup disk.

2019-02-05 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Single-drive Mac startup disk.

2019-02-04 Thread James Kelly
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Re: power book 520

2019-02-01 Thread James Kelly
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Re: power book 520

2019-02-01 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Single-drive Mac startup disk.

2019-01-27 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Question on building custom old Mac

2019-01-27 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Question on building custom old Mac

2019-01-27 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Restart issue with Mac IIci

2018-12-11 Thread James Kelly
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Re: SCSI Cables

2018-12-11 Thread James Kelly
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Re: SCSI Cables

2018-12-10 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Quadra 700 restarts when trying to boot floppy disks

2018-12-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Quadra 700 restarts when trying to boot floppy disks

2018-12-07 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Collection of Macs Free to Good Home

2018-11-26 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Collection of Macs Free to Good Home

2018-11-26 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Looking for Performa 631cd, monitor w/speakers, and more

2018-11-26 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Mac IIci with blank monitor

2018-11-13 Thread James Kelly
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Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-16 Thread James Kelly
> Hi all, > Got my capacitors in the mail this morning and just finished soldering them onto the motherboard. Replaced the pram battery stuck it in and the CC booted right up! .put a smile on my face! Thanks so much to all of you for your help. Jim -- -- - You received this messag

Re: Colour Classic part two

2014-06-13 Thread James Kelly
Thanks Dylan Guess I should just go ahead and change out the analog board caps while I have the CC apartbetter now then when they create a problem. I agree with you saying to discharge the CRT. Got a rubber mat and electrical gloves so I should be safealready had one heart attack...don'

Colour Classic part two

2014-06-13 Thread James Kelly
Hi all, While I am waiting for my new capacitors I ordered to recap the motherboard, I thought I would apply a retrobright treatment to the outer casing ( I just finished one of my Apple IIc's and it came out looking like new). I removed the CC's back shell casing and spotted four screws that

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-12 Thread James Kelly
> There's no need to pull up on the cap while using the two pencil method. >> If you gently press inward on the cap terminals with the soldering tools, >> when the solder is melted the caps will come up between the solder tips. >> Pulling risks lifting a pad. > > > > Jeff > Thanks

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-11 Thread James Kelly
> Ordered the Nichicon capacitors I needed.guess I'll spend a few days > practicing my soldering before they arrive. Thanks all Jim -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-11 Thread James Kelly
> > > 25V is absolutely fine. > > > Charles, Is the 10uf 25v from Nichicon the same physical size and fit the > pads of the 10uf 16v I am replacing? Hope I am not asking to many dumb > questions..spent my career in the Nuc field manhandling huge pumps, > compressors and other heavy equipmen

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-11 Thread James Kelly
> > > On Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 18:48, TT > >> wrote: >> >> Just an FYI. For the 47uF capacitors, I recently found a 16V version of >> polymer SMD aluminum can types that are more reasonably priced if you order >> more than 10. They don't have fluid inside them like the OEM version and >> ar

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-11 Thread James Kelly
> > > Instead of low-dry heat, I suggest blasting all of the water out from >> under everything with compressed air, preferably from an air compressor. >> >> - Dylan > > I did use a can of compressed air to do just that before putting in the dishwasher on low heatI don't have a air compresso

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-11 Thread James Kelly
Well, the caps came off without a hitchI used two 25w pencil solder guns and wife method ( had her pull up gently with a needle nose as I heated both sides of the pad. Jeff thanks for recommending the liquid solder flux...picked up some this morning at Radio Shack. Since I found my 25w sol

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
> > I just get OE-style Panasonic aluminum electrolytics from DigiKey: > > > Thanks DylanI will be careful to install the new caps positive to > positive negative to negative. Nice that Apple put the + polarity symbol on > the MB by each capthey must have figured someone like me would

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
One last questionI am sitting here looking at the caps...they are seated in black plastic squares that are notched on the two sides aligned with the pads. if I get what you all are saying then I am cutting the top of the can off then removing the outer wall and bottom of the capI am as

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
Plan on removing the caps tomorrow, hopefully that will go well :) then decide which caps to get and order them. Since I have the CC apart I thought I would give it a face lift and retrobright the outside cabinetit yellowed quite a bit sitting in my little office work space at home th

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:57:10 PM UTC-4, Dylan McDermond wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2014, at 1:00 PM, James Kelly > > wrote: > So if I am reading you correctly...you do not need to reusing the plastic > base, but just solder the new capacitors to the pads on the mb. Are yo

Re: Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
ave the needed solid state caps. Thanks for the reply On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:16:34 PM UTC-4, Dylan McDermond wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:31 AM, James Kelly > > wrote: > > -Checked capacitors for any leakage...there was none > > > Are you positive? If it’s nev

Dead Colour Classic..maybe

2014-06-10 Thread James Kelly
Hi all, I recently took my Colour Classic out of ten years of storage, booted it up with a boot disk and loaded OS 7.5.3. I ordered a pram battery for it and thought I was good to go. Two days ago it refused to boot from the key board. I checked some old troubleshooting threads on a few foru