[Labs] Building a Clear Red Mac!

Today on Macintosh Librarian Labs, Ms Fox converts a beige Macintosh SE/30 to an awesome candy apple red Macintosh thanks to the case from MacEffects.com!
Maccy is resting is voice from VCF-SW!
New video on VCF Southwest Coming soon!
BIIIIG thanks to Mark @ MacEffects for donating these cases to the Library!
Please check out his cases at maceffects.com
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[@singletona082]

I lived through the 90's. I see clear cases and i want whatever it is.

[@ricardobornman1698]

It's nice to see these retro computers getting so much love.

[@notation254]

Such a great channel, it needs more love in the KZbin algorithm.

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@AnimalFacts]

That JWST skirt tho. 💯

[@geekwithsocialskills]

Those Mac Effects cases are pretty sweet for sure! I've been on the fence about getting one of the Apple IIe clear cases. After watching your awesome possum video, I need to revisit that before they are gone forever.

[@messij]

Need Red Keyboard case !

[@adampope5107]

When driving screws into holes that kinda sorta need to be tapped or removing stubborn screws, you can use a wrench on your screwdriver for extra torque. It really helps if you have drivers with hexagonal grips. The amount of extra torque can be surprising though as it is multiplicative of the lever length, so I always start real slow.

[@AlexiMinimilian]

So stylish! A foxy mac mod from a foxy librarian.

[@Jordan4Ibanez]

The green case looks like a solid version of nickelodeon slime, that's amazing

[@thewizardmountain]

The tip about screwing backwards until you hear a click, to make sure you are getting the existing threads... something I never knew before, but will definitely remember!

[@JDW-]

Another wonderful video. Yes indeed, those MacEffect cases are nice. I myself have only tried the 100% transparent one (shown in my case review video), but I must say those colored cases are quite special. BTW, when performing CRT discharge, the official Apple-sanctioned method is to put the discharge tool's alligator clip on the Ground Lug and not the metal chassis. Now, I know what you're thinking... You'd think they are both the same GND point, but in fact they are not 100% the same. The GND Lug is the bolt to which the BLK/WHT wire from the Yoke PCB connects, and that's where your discharge tool's GND clip need to attach.. If you remove the motherboard, then it won't matter if you put the alligator clip on the metal chassis instead. But putting the clip on the GND Lug better protects the motherboard during those rare times when there is actually a discharge through the discharge tool. I say "rare" because most SE and SE/30 Macs have a functioning discharge resistor, so most people won't hear or see a crackle when using a discharge tool because the CRT has already been discharged through that resistor. Keep up the great work, Ms. Fox and Maccy!

[@Scrat-rs5ud]

Maccy would look nice in one of these cases. After all, he's the right shape!

[@emmabentley7945]

I absolutely love your JWST skirt!! ❤❤

[@MotownBatman]

The Transparent Looks Sweet! I personally, would put an OG Faceplate on it, just to give it more of that '97 iMac Feel

[@XodiumLabs]

I love this video what for being a nice, paced out walkthrough of tearing down one of these compact Macs. My SE/30's been due for a case swap (sadly not to a ME case, though I wish I could buy one so bad) forever, and I've just been scared to give it a go because I'm afraid of breaking stuff. You make it look easy.

[@TheCrazzyToobinator]

"The Mac cracker, the Mac cracker ehr ehr ehr" Absolutely killed me xD Very informative video, those see through cases look so retro and kinda want to mod our SE with one now! If the capacitors in the monitor start to go bad you will know because the ones in the vertical drive section usually fail first causing vertical collapse (picture starts to squish horizontally).

[@NottsBobUK]

Interesting video. Thanks for showing us.

[@EverythingIsBrokenGarage]

Awesome work Kate! Amazing as always!

[@angrydove4067]

An awesome possum video, I say that too! I wish they had those cases for the Mac Classic, mine is beat up.

[@raycreveling1583]

ML:Look at me. Look at me (Fingers point toward eyes) I'm the Maccy now.

[@kaloifortich4491]

not a big fan of macs but i really like your content. thank you!

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

I appreciate that!

[@retropuffer2986]

Now Maccy is Reddy. 😊

[@TheTimelord3]

awesome project

[@Simon-ml4lu]

Great choice of skirt JWS !

[@FarrellMcGovern]

Thank you for a great video! Brings back memories...I was a bench tech at an authorized Apple repair shop, and I pulled apart many a Mac back in the day. Then you couldn't get long torx screwdrivers...so Apple supplied repair shops with this weird thing that was a long piece of torx shaped metal that had at one end been bent into the shape of a flattened "O" to enable you to turn it. We used to call them "Mac Keys". I used to hate shorting out the anode...sometimes, you would get a spectacular arc that always scared the jeepers out of me!

[@1stage]

This was fun. Thanks, Ms. Fox.

[@zkdr6278]

I appreciate the walkthrough on how you’re putting things together. Not a lot of channels go as in depth

[@mattmyers9351]

Awesome cases for sure, great content as always!

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Glad you like them!

[@jonathankleinow2073]

Saving this video for when I finally put my SE/30 back together, maybe in a blue case. I need to get the board recapped, and I'd like to get a new CRT since the one I have has some decent burn-in from the menu bar. I took everything apart (carefully) a couple years ago and intended to recap and reassemble, but life got in the way. I might be in a position later this month to actually get it done, though.

[@EricsEdgeVideos]

Love the candy apple red case! It's smokin' and in a good way.

[@20000lbs_of_Cheese]

shout out to awesome opossum

[@zacmitchell_1984]

I love the design of these macs!

[@onigvd77]

thanks for this video, I would really like to see MacEffects branch out and create cases for other machines too! the old plastics of Macs have become brittle over time and with many machines being 30+ years, the plastics and some of the internal components are not going to live forever, they may have already died or broke in someway. This includes mechanical hard drives, so I think you may need to replace the hard drive in that SE one day soon. Once again its nice to see a new video :)

[@imac7531]

i have contacted them a while back ago in order to make a clear case for iMac G3 machines, but now that i think of it? ibook G3 clamshell would also be a fantastic idea. let's go talk to them and pressure them to make more case for those older macs out there. would love to see imac G3 and ibook G3 clamshell. Anyway, as of now they can't, but it is on the table. hope they will make them soon. i need more projects. :)

[@nickcabrera3982]

Awesome mod! Red looks great.

[@ArtCastaneda]

I got mine. I love it!

[@richardbrobeck2384]

What cool up date this winter I need to rebuild my Apple SE/30 !

[@jabrew85]

😲😲😲 @12:12 That is a long screwdriver. Plenty of times where I would have found something like that to be handy.

[@DanaDoesStuff]

Awesome possum video! 🙂 Usually I go for blue, but that red case reminds me of my favorite Jolly Rancher flavor and I think I want it! Also, your audio is spot-on. 👍🏻

[@tomwagner9980]

Use your librarian strength!

[@billlockhart2272]

another awesome possum video from you. Your videos continue to get better and better. This was a very detailed video that one could use as a general reference for working on these older Macs. Maybe one day you can do a video on how you got into Macs?

[@StephenMcLeod]

What a load of work - but the end result is awesome!

[@RomeoG39]

I like your videos. I remember when my dad and I went to look at the Apple IIc that I wanted at Computerland back in '84 or '85, they had the [original] MAC on display.

[@ciaragarrity6425]

I'd love to see this sold on Etsy or Ebay!

[@alk7934]

Would love that green case. I may need a replacement case at some point anyways. The Mac SE/30 I got has one of the screws under the handle stripped beyond all recognition. I really need to get that out....

[@notserp86]

That's awesome! Thank you for reminding me that I never want to play with a CRT. :)

[@lonergansrun]

So cool to see old tech getting some tlc :)

[@retrotechtive]

Only recently got my first classic Mac, a totally dead Mac Plus which I've now resurrected. I had no idea there were transparent cases for some of the models! Also great to see replacement PCBs for a few on the Mac Effects website too 😊

[@EuphoricDan]

Great video. You're really making me want to start collecting vintage PCs lol

[@matthewdropco]

I really love the effect that the original Bondi Blue iMac had on the industry, and how it seems it had an effect retroactively with the translucent cases you got. Not sure if any other companies made clear cases (aside from the internal test cases you mentioned) before the iMac came out, but I like that you could make your SE/30 in the same style as the colored iMacs.

[@ratp0ison]

This makes me realise I need to get an SE/30 so I can do this.

[@sathanas2924]

idk how i got to this side of youtube but this is dope. also your skirt is awesome and you are absolutely gorgeous

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Thank you so much!!

[@nick9323]

nail polish removed at the end - macs like it raw :P Admirable choice with spinning drive

[@TheDistur]

That Mac Cracker is menacing. Cool case!

[@lyonadimral]

WOOT! WOOT!

[@terryclair2914]

Love the blue...

[@lebeyes]

Awesome JWST skirt!

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

The best!

[@imac7531]

Love the Maceffect case. mine was also done in a clear case. just love it. i wonder if Maccy is going to have a little brother and sister. ;) Blue and green Maccy.

[@hw2577]

Great video. Relaxing and chill to watch you showing step by step on this. What happened with the SE sound?

[@chumbawumba1959]

Nailed it with the 'Nick' reference ... that is certainly **GREEN SLIME GREEN** ... not a fan of that particular color ... LOL

[@ChainsawRosary]

It'd be cool to see some colors similar to the G3 iMacs.

[@boatofcar3273]

Great video, Kate! You made that look easy-I’d have a much tougher time with that project 😄I wonder if they’ll ever release a matching keyboard shell?

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

That would be cool! Thanks for watching Boat!

[@abx42]

They can be. That Tec has been around for about 10 yrs now.

[@user-mind_]

wow😊

[@OverlordJake]

That skirt is outta this world.

[@tak178]

RETURN OF THE MAAAAAAAAAC

[@HairyDalek]

You could mix and match those three case colours - an RGB SE 30!! 🙂

[@BGBTech]

New here, interesting content, generally liked a lot of what I have seen thus far. Not much experience with Macs; and admittedly when I was in school, computers were mostly running Win9x (Win3.11 early on, WinXP by the end of high-school); I mostly fall into the Gen Y age range. Still find some of the retrocomputer stuff kinda interesting as well. But, yeah, my interests are mostly programming, mostly C, ASM (several), and Verilog (for FPGA's). Have made my own custom ISA and toolchain for FPGA (mostly a 64-bit VLIW, 3-wide with 64 GPRs, also has 128-bit FPU-SIMD ops, etc), along with a C compiler and emulator, etc. Can run ports of Doom/Heretic/Hexen/etc and Quake and similar on it, though Quake isn't terribly playable. It runs at 50MHz, gets ~ 30-60 MIPs on average; 150 theoretical limit. I also have an implementation of OpenGL for it. Have also done stuff sometimes with electronics and similar as well, ...

[@MadsonOnTheWeb]

24:30 the white debris just stuck right in the middle. Anyway, thats a beautiful machine!

[@pseudotasuki]

I suspect that when grounding to the chassis you probably won't get a spark most of the time. Without a "true" ground the voltage in the chassis would increase very quickly even with a very small amount of current, due to its limited capacitance.

[@pseudotasuki]

That, or the SE30's tube just discharges quickly.

[@PACKYCSONE80]

Giving me TRON vibes!!!

[@aa-au]

Hey, nice video. I do like the red case overall, and maybe one day I will get one and perform a similar transformation. As for the differences of the first generation ADB mouse, there are a few different revisions and I know that there are 4-5 different balls which are not interchangeable. The first mouse's manufacturing date can be determined by the first 5 characters in the serial number - MB120. The first 2 characters MB must mean that it was made in Malaysia. The next 3 digits are the manufacturing date, so 120 is broken down to the 1 being 199'1' and the 20 is the 20th week of that year. The second mouse has LT232 in the first 5 characters of the serial number, so it was made in Taiwan (LT) and the date is 199'2' and the 32nd week. The second mouse is a newer mouse and obviously a different revision.

[@tombarber8929]

Just a heads up for when you’re discharging the CRT, I’m thinking you don’t want to be holding the metal part of the case Incase there is a spark, so you don’t become the path to ground.

[@Voultar]

I want one of these..

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

That's super cool! Do they have matching keyboard cases though?

[@Barry101er]

Greetings from a System 7 beta tester! Love your channel.

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Glad you enjoy it! System 7 is the best !

[@Barry101er]

​@@MacintoshLibrarian We were a running Macintosh IIfx’s - exciting times :)

[@6502Assembler]

How rare are the apple prototype clear cased units? What is their value?

[@davidwalz3317]

Are there cases like this for the Mac Plus? asking for a friend.

[@omarguerrero6417]

I don't get how apple hasn't released a iMac with that designed they could make sale based on nostalgic products of theres

[@mar4kl]

I've been missing you - thanks for making another video. Your content is always fascinating, even for people like me who are more into the vintage computer information than Macs in particular. And I love watching you work on these machines; I'm envious of your skill with a soldering iron. Speaking of which, while you were working on transferring your Mac SE to the red case, what looked like a patch on your skirt caught my eye, but I couldn't quite make out what it was. Were you wearing a Macintosh Librarian take on a poodle skirt?

[@eccramer]

It’s the James Webb Space Telescope!

[@drewzero1]

I've got a very sad, smashed Performa 575 (same case as Macintosh TV) that could use a case like this, though on my budget I'd been leaning more toward a wood or fiberglass DIY solution.

[@tekk9995]

Nice! Ill have a look. Btw, concerning the discharging. Wasn't your left hand on the wrong spot there? Resting on the metal chassis?

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Yes. That was bad 😰

[@mochi_snek]

Can I use these to make a Raspberry Pi project? Getting ahold of a classic mac machine is becoming more and more difficult and plus I don't find them very used nowadays so what I always wanted to do is shove a Mac Mini inside one of these with a really good screen on it.

[@tspawn35]

Yes, I have seen a screen and a pi in one of these cases.

[@BillyRiecke]

What are the specs on the Mac Cracker and where did you get it? I've got an SE that I think might need surgery soon (first time ever).

[@JVHShack]

If only there was a red phosphorus CRT like there are green and white ones. You could emulate the vox pattern from KITT and other fun things! 😈 Also, pro tip: If you are cutting screw threads into new material, sometimes it helps to turn the screw half a turn in and back it out a quarter turn to clear the newly formed threads. If needed, the amount turned in and backed out can be adjusted to a more comfortable rate.

[@aa-au]

There may not be a red CRT but there definitely is an orange CRT used on some old computers in the 80s and early 90s. That would as close as you can get to red I suppose. If you have a red/green defect like me, everything looks grey. Not really, I can see red and green - it's the in between colours I have difficulty with, unfortunately.

[@papasivir4241]

I just want to hack the internals of an M2 Mac mini into this thing and then just use the panel of some LCD display. It'd be kind of hard to find a 4x3 aspect ratio LCD display but I'm sure I could find something.

[@papasivir4241]

Somebody get action retro on this lol

[@fastestdino2]

these cases are cool, but 300 dollars is a pretty big price tag for a case no? Maybe I'm just not seeing the bigger picture though.

[@lawrencemanning]

It’s all about quantity. Seems a reasonable price for devoted fans TBH.

[@LegacyMac08]

they doesn't have it for my Macintosh Classic 1 😅😅

[@markfernandes5674]

clear keyboard case next?

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

But do you have a Jasmine Direct Drive?

[@techtrashing]

Just a reminder to not hold the chassis when discharging the tube. Great video though.

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Yes! I didn’t realize I made such a dire mistake until I was editing 🥹

[@Lordcyberkattlive]

maccy is so cute

[@andresbravo2003]

make a clear red as I thought

[@drjankenstein]

i mean, dont get me wrong, *you* make great content, but i missed maccy's commentary. hope he recovers his voice by the next video!

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

the next video is going to be 99% Maccy!

[@GlitchSystem-xf7jb]

I wish company's today would build clear case product's alongside with normal products. It sucks it's taking 3rd party's the make the clear causes that people want

[@mysticmarble94]

🌈

[@djtomoy]

It’s no longer original 😭

[@siem8160]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Why modify a work of art? Using the case with a NUC inside with an LCD screen is fun, but doing so is a crime. I own over sixty Macs, but the only crime I committed around 1995 was to paint an 840av in blue. I felt so bad about it that I painted it back to its original color in 2010. Even when I change capacitors on my machines, I manage to solder exactly the same size and keep the old ones. Using this plastic goes against the grain of the environmental movement. A wooden SE and I would have applauded the prowess.

[@lawrencemanning]

The working innards from a mac with a smashed up case would be the ideal solution, but aren’t you being a bit too protective? ;)

[@siem8160]

@@lawrencemanning We need to be protective if we want to preserve this heritage for future generations. I admit I'm with same orthodoxia when it comes to my motorcycles and games consoles collections. Can you imagine the Mona Lisa with a modernized outfit and a smartphone, or a Jaguar Type E with an electric motor and LCD dashboard? If so, don't call it the Mona Lisa any more, and the Jaguar will have to find another name for it.

[@DanaDoesStuff]

@@siem8160 it should be noted that nothing on the original case was destroyed or lost… So all of the innards could go back in that case just as easily. Nothing destructive happened here…

[@snow6937]

Gadget Hackwrench definitely thnx a lot 4 that luv of PCs

[@vanhoteen]

𝐁𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐋, 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐝𝐨𝐧❜𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 (06:54). You've been lucky because it may be the model that has a discharge capacitor, but if not, it's 10,000 volts.

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

Yes!! Omg. I made a major mistake that could have been bad. Thanks for noticing !

[@JayJay-88]

The new case looks great! I also want a SE/30, hard to come by where I live. 🥹 Oh well, at least I have my trusty Plus.