It's been years since I've had to do any board-level work on the compact
Macs. But in virtually every one I opened up, there was an issue with that
dang multi-pin power connector, as it leaves the analog board. In almost
all cases, there were cracked solder joints on the board-side of the
connector. Had this in Plus, SE, SE/30 and one Classic IIRC.
Carefully resoldering / reflowing them fixed the issues. It's one of those
things - if you haven't done it yet, do it just for drill - get it out of
the way. If you want to get fresh, solder-suck as much of the old as you
can, and resolder it with SN63/37 material.
That's all I've got. ;-)
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
The flicker is gonna likely be aging capacitors on the
analog board.
Ideally you'd replace these.
For the pincushion I believe there are magnets on the yoke that can be
adjusted...
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On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 2:51 AM -0700, "David Griffith" <dave at 661.org>
wrote:
I recapped a Mac SE/30 a few months back and only just now put it back
together. After a false start with dirty contacts on the ROM simm and
resulting irregular vertical bars, the machine is working again. There
are no more zipping sounds coming out of the speaker. Two problems
remain:
1) There is slight pincushioning along the bottom of the CRT, about a
third of the way in from the left.
2) The CRT produces a rather noticable and irritating flicker. I don't
remember the one-piece Macs flickering like this.
I think a cleverly-placed magnet might fix the pincushioning and recapping
the analogue board would remedy the flicker. Can I get some thoughts,
commentary, and suggestions on this?
--
David Griffith
dave at
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