Macintosh Classic Restored! (but mistakes were made) - Savvy Sage

[@SavvySage]

Hope you enjoy my final episode of 2023! Special thanks to Mac84 and Amiga of Rochester for making this project possible! I've got some new retrospectives cooking for 2024... Stay tuned!

[@BollingHolt]

24:35 Hey! It's me! LOL. Oh yeah... Amiga of Rochester does fantastic work!!! I have to get some parts to Thomas soon... so many projects LOL. Congrats on having a working Classic!

[@JimLeonard]

Good recap of the, uh, recap :) Glad you got it working.

[@SavvySage]

Glad you enjoyed it-thanks for watching!

[@EricsEdgeVideos]

Nicely done! Well produced video and great success after such a long wait.

[@SavvySage]

Thank you very much! And it was nice seeing you in-person at VCF Midwest this year. : )

[@chironbramberger]

Great video! Thanks for making it! Quick note: using the screwdriver like that runs a big-time risk of damaging the keycaps. A tool for pulling keycaps is a much safer option. The metal screwdriver can easily leave marks on the edges of the keycaps where it makes contact. If you don't have a keycap puller you can use something softer like Popsicle stick, old plastic credit cards, or maybe chop sticks. The idea is to avoid using any metal tools because they will scratch and gouge the plastic. ALSO: You don't want to put anything metal in the hydrogen peroxide. It will "use it up" and the retrobrighting won't work as well. Also, in this case, it will corrode the button contacts inside the switch. I wouldn't recommend that either. I'm sure the switch still works for now but it's going to need to be treated with contact cleaner and eventually be replacement much sooner because of this. ADDITIONALLY: I wouldn't leave the Apple logos on their. They can usually be popped out with a paperclip from behind as there is often a little hole in the plastic. The retrobrighting may damage the printing and finish as well as basically de-blue (yellow) the silk screen printing. So I would highly recommend removing the Apple logos.

[@SavvySage]

Thanks for the tips! A keycap puller is something I should consider getting if I plan to restore more keyboards in my spare time-it'd probably save me some headaches too 😅

[@wasdplayer]

This video production is beyond perfection! Thanks for sharing everything you did :D

[@PlayStefan_misc]

Just finished the third and last video of your Macintosh Classic and it was very interesting to watch. I am very happy that the puppy works fine again after so many years. I guess the advice not to buy those kind of Macs if you want to collect old Macs is absolutely right. I’ve bought an iMac G3 as well as an G4 eMac and both start to fail quickly after working at the beginning and guess what, of course it were bad capacitors as well as problems with the analog board. I also have no real skill to fix that at all and also didn’t want to work next to the dangerous CRT. Both are now used as decoration in the background of my videos. But the best Mac in my collection is definitely the Macintosh Quadra 700 which is fully working despite the floppy drive being kinda buggy cause it does not properly ejects nor reads the disks all the time. It’s really cool to have this special Mac next to my original Jurassic Park VHS from 1993. The Mac itself has System 7 pre-installed on the - still working - SCSI hard drive. Greetings from Germany.

[@InitialiseDisk]

Great video! That retrobright turned out really well. Keep that old hard drive going for as long as possible, they're quite rare. Of all the macs I've had not a single one had a functioning hard drive. Blue SCSI is amazing though so when the time comes obviously put it to use.

[@HrutkayMods]

Hi Sage! great video as always :D

[@SavvySage]

Thanks Hrutkay! Much appreciated. :)

[@HansCampbell]

FYI, the "repair guys" recapped your Macintosh Classic the correct way. DO NOT replace the electrolitic capacitors with solid state capacitors. They have different characteristics, and when the solid state capacitors eventually go bad, they pop or blow, taking traces and pcb with them. Electrolitic capacitors that are made in Japan, Germany, or the USA are very high quality and will usually last for 20 to 30 years. 🤔

[@SavvySage]

All I can say is at least I won't need to worry about them for a long time-electrolytic capacitors today aren't as bad as what Apple used back then, haha

[@mikegreiling]

Nice video, was fun to watch all three restoration videos in succession. Gotta say though, your suggestion to collect a Mac G4 tower instead is a really odd one. The experience of a mid-2000s era Mac OSX computer is not even remotely analogous to a classic Mac. I don’t know if people get into this hobby to collect “generic old computer” stuff, they usually have a particular operating system or time period they’re nostalgic for or curious about, and if somebody wants to scratch a late-80s, early-90s Mac System 7 itch, that’s not going to be fulfilled with a G4 tower

[@alextoolstudio]

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[@SavvySage]

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