Acill's Amiga Repair Thread

[Kremlar]

Hey Acill -

Sent you a message on Facebook.

[Acill]

Hey Acill -

Sent you a message on Facebook.

Hmm.. I haven't seen it come through there. I use my real name there if you sent it to an Acill.

[Kremlar]

Hmm.. I haven't seen it come through there. I use my real name there if you sent it to an Acill.

PM sent.

[Methuselas]

Acill,

I inadvertently trashed my A500's case (it committed suicide by falling off a tall shelf. If you want to pay for shipping, I can send you the bottom case, mobo, mouse and power supply, if it will help out. I'm not "done" with the Amiga scene, but I don't have a use for hardware anymore. Oh, I'm back in Texas, hence the shipping.

[Acill]

Acill,

I inadvertently trashed my A500's case (it committed suicide by falling off a tall shelf. If you want to pay for shipping, I can send you the bottom case, mobo, mouse and power supply, if it will help out. I'm not "done" with the Amiga scene, but I don't have a use for hardware anymore. Oh, I'm back in Texas, hence the shipping.

That would help out yes, I sent you a PM with my info.

[Acill]

If the orders I agreed to take in this week so far all agree to have it done I will need to put anyone else that asks that I havent got back with on a waiting list. If your not in a rush please feel free to message me and I can still take your board, but it will just take a couple weekends to get it done once I get to it.

[SACC-guy]

If the orders I agreed to take in this week so far all agree to have it done I will need to put anyone else that asks that I havent got back with on a waiting list. If your not in a rush please feel free to message me and I can still take your board, but it will just take a couple weekends to get it done once I get to it.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. (had to repair car first!)

BTW, do you also recap cpu's and/or power supply?

[Acill]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. (had to repair car first!)

BTW, do you also recap cpu's and/or power supply?

I can do PSU yes, dont like to mess with them much though. I do 3640's all the time. Its no problem.

[Acill]

I now have the tools to do SIMM socket replacements, chip removal, add sockets (buster 9 remove and add a PLCC for buster) and minor repairs to traces etc. at home. I also stock Caps and don't require anyone to send the kits along with boards. Turn around is still a week+ due to me doing this part time after work and on the weekends.

A result of me stocking caps is the price to do a board is higher. I wont buy low quality ones. I have been using hybrid Panasonic 10k hour. The complete kit at digikey for a single A1200 runs me about $55 (I order several to bring the price a few dollars lower). I can use a step below and cut that in half but I am reluctant to do so. I find it hard to justify doing the work and knowing it may need it again down the road if I use lower rated components.

Here is the caps I am using for an A4000T I am currently working on as an example: http://www.digikey.com/short/3pwwq2

[Kremlar]

I now have the tools to do SIMM socket replacements, chip removal, add sockets (buster 9 remove and add a PLCC for buster) and minor repairs to traces etc. at home. I also stock Caps and don't require anyone to send the kits along with boards. Turn around is still a week+ due to me doing this part time after work and on the weekends.

A result of me stocking caps is the price to do a board is higher. I wont buy low quality ones. I have been using hybrid Panasonic 10k hour. The complete kit at digikey for a single A1200 runs me about $55 (I order several to bring the price a few dollars lower). I can use a step below and cut that in half but I am reluctant to do so. I find it hard to justify doing the work and knowing it may need it again down the road if I use lower rated components.

Here is the caps I am using for an A4000T I am currently working on as an example: http://www.digikey.com/short/3pwwq2

Right!  Better to do it right the first time.  Why skimp on caps?

[Acill]

Some progress on Kremlar's A4000T. I just finished the Audio/Video module. No more low volume through the RCA jacks. Those two caps above the red jack were leaking quite bad.

[QuikSanz]

That backplane looks a bit bent. No doubt from pushing in cables.

[Kremlar]

Some progress on Kremlar's A4000T. I just finished the Audio/Video module. No more low volume through the RCA jacks. Those two caps above the red jack were leaking quite bad.

:laugh1:

[Acill]

Kremlars A3640 all done. New caps with correct polarity to fix Commodore's mistake even.

[Acill]

Finished Kremlars A4000T at last! That is one challenging board let me tell you! Came out great though.

[smerf]

Might have to take it easy on this Retired Navy Chief, he is doing pretty good and besides the Amiga core needs him, not to many people working on Amiga's anymore. Only thing is I never saw any Navy Chief work before, this is something new to me, but it looks like he is really working, and doing a fine job at it. Used to run a Pace station area, years ago. To bad of eye sight to do the work, but had all the knowledge to lead men to do the work. Wonder if this guy worked for me once when he was an airmen. Nah, to many people in CA.