raoulduke
Experienced Member
I apologize for posting this so soon after the other Portable restoration thread. I've had mine sitting around for a few years. I recapped all but one capacitor a year or two ago, and then I let it sit. At the time, it didn't seem to work it all.
When I broke it out recently, it definitely turned on and I got a display response, but no response to the floppy I inserted. I am hoping that - if the issue is a capacitor problem, that the culprit is (only) certainly C4, which I thought I had gotten to stay in place, but which has a serious problem with its + pad (I don't think I caused the problem).
I couldn't think of a better place to post this question, but I was hoping people have opinions about how to best bypass or fix this? Personally - because the space is very very tight and difficult to deal with - I was thinking of attacking a wire at least to the exposed copper where the dead pad is, and possibly to the other pad also to make it easier to work with. Does that sound make sense? Thanks.
When I broke it out recently, it definitely turned on and I got a display response, but no response to the floppy I inserted. I am hoping that - if the issue is a capacitor problem, that the culprit is (only) certainly C4, which I thought I had gotten to stay in place, but which has a serious problem with its + pad (I don't think I caused the problem).
I couldn't think of a better place to post this question, but I was hoping people have opinions about how to best bypass or fix this? Personally - because the space is very very tight and difficult to deal with - I was thinking of attacking a wire at least to the exposed copper where the dead pad is, and possibly to the other pad also to make it easier to work with. Does that sound make sense? Thanks.