Mark_E
New Member
Greeting All,
I'm new to the forums, and one of the reasons I came here was that I'm in the process of trying to restore a couple of vintage Kaypro II machines, and I knew that the collective brainpower and experience represented here would be a big help with some of the tougher questions and problems I've had with this project. My first question: It appears that, on the mainboard (motherboard) itself, most of the brown, disk-type caps are leaking. (I should say "were leaking". It's been so long now, that they're just dried up & petrified, leaving permanent stains on the board where they were leaking at one time.) This doesn't seem to be affecting the performance of the machines, they both boot up and run CP/M. It's just that I was wondering if I should probably change them out. I know that it's customary when repairing old radios to re-cap them, and I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron. Is this something I should probably do? Is there anything else on the motherboard I might want to consider replacing as part of the restoration of these machines? Thanks very much, Mark E.
I'm new to the forums, and one of the reasons I came here was that I'm in the process of trying to restore a couple of vintage Kaypro II machines, and I knew that the collective brainpower and experience represented here would be a big help with some of the tougher questions and problems I've had with this project. My first question: It appears that, on the mainboard (motherboard) itself, most of the brown, disk-type caps are leaking. (I should say "were leaking". It's been so long now, that they're just dried up & petrified, leaving permanent stains on the board where they were leaking at one time.) This doesn't seem to be affecting the performance of the machines, they both boot up and run CP/M. It's just that I was wondering if I should probably change them out. I know that it's customary when repairing old radios to re-cap them, and I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron. Is this something I should probably do? Is there anything else on the motherboard I might want to consider replacing as part of the restoration of these machines? Thanks very much, Mark E.