Great Source of A1200 / A600 caps and other retro items

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

IF caps are not "bursting" they are fine.

OMG, really? Not even going to waste my time arguing with you, if you believe this so adamantly.  Am sure others will be along to point out the error of your ways, however.

:laughing:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'm asking question. If you have answer, please provide.

I hate to be one of those grumpy old men who says "search the forums", but seriously.  This question has been asked literally *hundreds* of times.

There's a really good thread (which I can't find off-hand) that shows the damage from leaking caps, with pictures.  Thing is that a lot of them will leak from the bottom, so just a visual "surface" inspection may not reveal the corrosion occurring beneath them.  And by the time you start getting the stability and audio glitches (a common sign that the caps are starting to go) common in our Amiga's, especially A600/1200/4000/CD32, irreversible damage may already have occurred.

Then there's the aside that *it is just so cheap to do*, why would anyone not do this common preventative maintenance?  Even if you lack the tools or knowledge to do it yourself, AmigaKit and many others will do it for <$40 USD per board.  Not doing common preventative maintenance is like arguing that you shouldn't change the oil in your car "since you can't see it it must not be bad", right?  Gah.  :p

I've never personally replaced the caps in an Amiga (yet - A2000's aren't as susceptible), but as a former Dell field technician I have replaced hundreds of motherboards that fell victim to "capacitor plague".  (see link)  Just do it, and rest easier at night.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I agree with this completely!!  It can be just as easy to answer a question with an answer rather than sending people off looking for old threads.  It defeats the purpose of a forum.  Plus in rediscussing something some new info might come out.  It annoys me looking at a post and seeing the same old "we've already discussed that" answer.  I am normally looking at the post because I might be interested in the subject.  If you don't want to discuss something than ignore the thread.  It's really simple.

LOL.  You guys don't know how easy you've got it.  In some of the other forums I frequent they'll straight-up curse you out if you ask the same question for the millionth time, that was already asked six times last week alone.  But, cheers!    :banana:

Edit - I've actually asked questions on some forums and had my thread locked by a moderator because it was asked too many other times recently.  Everybody's a tough guy on the Internet!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

A pic of the recapped board here.

Nice work!  Now while you got it open, just need to replace that RF output with an HDMI output.