Category: repairs
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Various notes on recapping a G4 MDD Power Supply (AcBel API1PC36)
Embarking on one hell of a recapping adventure, and documenting the process as best as I can. Yay.
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Clearing the condensate drain on a Haier ESA410N air conditioner
Kind of an off topic post for me but I hope with this post that I save someone else some time. No pictures, because I was too busy dealing with the absolute deluge of water coming out of this thing when I was servicing it. I deeply apologize for that (and I’m usually pretty good…
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The Power Mac 9600 Adventure, Part I – The Planning Phase
The Power Mac 9600 is one of my holy grail machines. It began in the early 2000s when a good friend of mine saw that I was getting by on an old Macintosh LC as my computer. We had a Compaq Deskpro (with a 450MHz Pentium III) as our family computer, but the LC was…
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The Karmic Wii U
Obligatory “this happened a long time ago, or at least it feels like it”, but… I had been wanting a Wii U ever since Modern Vintage Gamer did an excellent video on why the Wii U is such an excellent gaming console if you care about retro things. And it really isn’t hard to see,…
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The iPod 3G that should have been (and eventually was)
In hopes that some may not have to suffer the same fate I did, I write this piece. Back in 2017 or so, I got my hands on a third generation iPod. Not touch, not nano, the full-size iPod that released in 2003. I only ever got to see these in school, and by the…