28 May
2007
28 May
'07
2:43 p.m.
But perhaps
you can explain why soldering in a new capacitor, which is
presumable a standard part available from just about any decent
electronics suppier, is mroe work than tracking down a somwwhat rare PSU.
Tony, you have lots of time on your hands. Many people here have a job,
a wife, and kids that take priority over any hobby activity. You have
space to set up a nice workshop, and not everybody is so well supplied
as you. If Eric can send an email, proffer some money, receive a power
supply in mail, plug in the new power supply and go, I can easily
imagine it takes less of his time than to fix it.
ChrisM said it would take three minutes to fix the power supply. That
is horse byproduct. It takes my soldering iron more than three minutes
to get hot. :-) Many of us don't have a well supplied junk box, so it
Get a decent soldering iron :-)
More seriously, do what just about anyone else does. Flip the soldering
iron on, and then start dismantling the machine to remove the PSU module.
By the time you've got the PCB exposed, the iron should be up to temperature.
still takes a trip to an electronics shop or a web
order to get the
replacement. Disassembling the power supply, cleaning up the mess from
the faulty cap(s), unsoldering, soldering in the new one, reassembling
the case ... it all adds up.
As does tracking down a replacement supply, going to collect it (or going
down to the Post Office because they tried to deliver it when you were
out). fitting it, etc. And then finding the new one also has bad
capacitor trouble (Remember these capacitors generally fail from old age,
any Apple /// supply is likely to be as old now).
-tony