Tar-Stained Classic Complete Restoration - Part 2 - iiiDIY

[@tony359]

At some point during the video I thought "why others have such easy journeys when restoring those things, my Macs have all been a disaster!!" Then the Mac God noticed you and have you your fair amount of pain.! :D I also had exactly the same issue, using bad floppies to test my SE. Took me many, many hours to realise! :D Well done, this looks happy now!

[@mac27collection]

"When I close my eyes, all I can see is disk errors" LOL vintage tech troubleshooting in a nutshell. :D Great vid as always! Can't wait to see what you do next.

[@iiidiy]

Thanks! Next one is a bit more straight-forward :)

[@InitialiseDisk]

Thank you for the Christmas present XD. Our Christmas is on the 7th of January because old calendar. I love the "all i can see is disk errors" part. I had to sit through hours of disk errors when I used to only have one floppy disk which didn't even work lol.

[@iiidiy]

Well... Merry Christmas then! :)

[@markusfritze]

Nice one. I had a similar issue with a lot of 3.5 floppy disks, which didn't work when I tried to copy data of them. Ok, can happen on old disks, but and the drive no longer worked after a few tries. I tried different drives to rule out alignment issues, etc. Finally it dawned me: the coating of the disks itself was defect and clogged up the heads. The disks don't look bad when looking at them, but they are definitely defect!

[@iiidiy]

I thought that there was no way ALL of my floppies were bad after years in reasonable storage... but sure enough :) Good note about the coating that clogs heads, thanks!

[@VicTheVicar]

Wow! Of the 15-ish Macs that I've been working on for the past two years, only one machine had a bad floppy drive. That machine had been sitting in a damp environment and the floppy motor wasn't spinning evenly hence erased the floppy. Some day I might try to fix it with a broken spare drive

[@iiidiy]

Yeah, I really shot myself in the foot on this one 🤦‍♂:) Did you have corrosion elsewhere with that damp computer? What was it?

[@brianclimbs1509]

Beautiful. I'm jealous of your friend.

[@ConsolesRetro]

Dream Floppy Drive 😄

[@BilisNegra]

You mean nightmare?

[@ConsolesRetro]

@@BilisNegra ah ah perhaps, yes 😅

[@BigBadBench]

Nice job!!!

[@iiidiy]

Thank you!

[@RetroTechorDie]

Excellent work!

[@iiidiy]

Thanks! 🤙

[@mariorossi1633]

You can clean keyboard keycaps with an ultrasonic cleaner, water and backing soda, or a bath in dental cleaner

[@iiidiy]

Thanks for the tip, I'll to give that dental cleaner a try! :)

[@kirishima638]

The screen geometry still needs fixing but other than that well done

[@iiidiy]

Thanks! Did that off-camera, since it was so fiddly. If you look carefully, it improves at a certain point during the video without mention :) Then I dialled it more afterwards, but wanted to make sure all the pots worked! Great eye ;)

[@jeffyp2483]

surprised you didnt use keycaps for testing

[@iiidiy]

Sorry, I don't understand your suggestion... Could you please expand that, or rephrase?

[@jeffyp2483]

@@iiidiy keycap DA/app it will show when keys are pressed including command, ctrl, shift, etc. i used to use it to test keyboards. works well for that when its present (some wont have it, like ROM system 6.0.3)

[@iiidiy]

@@jeffyp2483 Oh, I thought you were talking about the physical keycaps, which was confusing :) Is that the little floating pallet-style app they used to have? Now called Keyboard Viewer in OSX+? If so, I haven't used that in ages, but can give it a whirl next time

[@RicardoDawson]

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