20 Nov
2009
20 Nov
'09
6:57 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave Taylor <ript at disasterarea.net> wrote:
The button batteries tend not to leak. So I bet it was the water.
The caps under the floppy drive on the 600 and 1200 are notorious for
leaking. You might want to replace those anyway while you're at it.
The accelerators are ridiculously expensive on ebay. It's not uncommon for
a 68030 accelerator for a 1200 to go for $200 or more. The 68060/powerpc
boards can easily top $500.
You might want to have a look at amigakit.com if you need odd parts. You
can even get new old stock 1200s there. I think they have 68030 accelerator
boards (for now) also. There's also retrobrite if the case looks bad.
brian
The rest of the components are surface mounted and
look to be okay (apart
from the RF TV circuits which are almost impossible to dry out even with a
hair dryer)
You can just remove those. That is, desolder and remove the feature. Most
people don't use them.
The main hardware I'm looking at is a couple of A1200s and a cd32 with
accelerators/third party add-on boards, so luckily
this stuff doesn't have a
barrel type battery. There are button type batteries on the add-on boards
that definitely have leaked and I've already removed them. I do wonder if
they leaked beforehand or not since they were actually quite dry.
It could be chemistry at work too I suppose (certainly not an expert).