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Offline CJK3o3Topic starter

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Poor A500 Restoration
« on: August 21, 2014, 06:59:21 PM »
It's been a while since I've done anything with my amigas.

I bought this poor thing online for the equivalent of $15 :


Inside there was a working 6A board with a little extra - a mikronik 6110 pc keyboard adapter (needed to be fixed but now works like a charm, in fact I even made a copy of it with the same ATMega chip).

The keyboard was completely butchered. Somebody tried to fix it and melted the membrane and damaged the controller board.

After dipping the case in various chemicals to get rid of the brushed on black paint i saw a ton of cracks and dents and also somebody even carved their name into it...

Hours of gentle grinding with different grit water sandpaper, then 3 coats of primer, sanded again with 1200 grit then finally 4 layers of white acryl base laid on :



There is no way to tell that this miggy is actually painted. The surface is smooth but feels "plastic".

I recapped the mobo, the floppy disk drive and got it a fully restored mitsumi qwerty keyboard.

It had a 512 memory expansion inside. Battery was dead and leaked acid but I managed to get the board fixed.

Another one brought back to life :)
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Offline CJK3o3Topic starter

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Re: Poor A500 Restoration
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2014, 08:24:30 PM »
A couple more pics of the finished restoration.



(Not screwed together yet)

I was bored so I polished the top of the rebuilt floppy to give it a mirror like finish :P Pimp my miggy. The keyboard is as good as new. Retrobrightened, cleaned with all rust removed. The whole mobo is recapped.


 

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Re: Poor A500 Restoration
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2014, 08:45:41 PM »
Quote from: jdryyz;771419
Great work!

Maybe the thread title should be changed to avoid confusion. "Awesome A500 restoration" is what I would call it, but I got your original meaning.




Thank you all for the kind words. And yes jdryyz you're right. Unfortunately constantly thinking in three different languages can make me confused sometimes.
 

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Re: Poor A500 Restoration
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2014, 07:42:46 PM »
Haha i really should get the name of the topic changed. Anyway this is the 15th miggy that I brought back to life. I think this one will be sold for whatever amount I can get and as usual the $ will go to a good cause - either for food for homeless 4 legged things or something similiar.

3 A1200's, 8 A500's, 2 A600's, one A3000 and one A2000 fixed and restored.