Hello from New Zealand!

[Castellen]

Welcome to NZ and Amiga.org :-)

There's also Compkarori in Wellington, just across from you on the other side of Cook Straight.
Graham deals in Amiga equipment.  He doesn't carry much in stock, but can get most things fairly quickly on demand.
More at http://www.compkarori.co.nz/ but it looks like his web server is down at the moment.

There's an Amiga club in Auckland:
http://www.titan.co.nz/amigaak/
They do a monthly HTML based newsletter.

I'm based in Christchurch and carry a few 2nd hand parts as well.  I also do component level motherboard repairs, battery replacements, etc.
http://amiga.serveftp.net

[Castellen]

Seems there is a few of us about in NZ, who would have guessed?

If anyone's passing through Christchurch and wants a *cheap* A3000, give me a yell.
Pretty standard, but fully reconditioned and running.  Had a few A3000s left over from a job last year, and that's the last of my surplus ones.
No keyboard, no monitor, 4Mb(?) fast mem, probably no hard drive and probably OS 2.x in ROM before anyone gets too excited :-P
RTC repaired and battery has been replaced of course.  CPU is 030 @25MHz.

Glad you found the SMD stuff useful.  It's hard to find much info on the net as most people seem to think it's some kind of secret science of the overlords.
Just shows what you can do with with some hot air and a little bit of technique.

[Castellen]

Something along the lines of NZ$50, enough to cover parts and labour costs of the reconditioning and testing.

The hardest bit might be finding a keyboard.  You could also use an A2000 one, or an A4000 one if you use a mini-DIN to 5 pin DIN adaptor.

I built a few PC keyboard to Amiga translator boxes a while ago, might still have one floating about which would do the trick.

[Castellen]

If you're still keen, I've found the details from my original job sheet.
Specs are:
030 @25MHz, OS 2.05 in ROM, 2Mb chip, 4Mb fast.
Other notes say it has a hard drive which appears dead.  Floppy drive works OK, but there are mechanical problems with the front case and eject button.
Is there an A3000 which *didn't* have this problem? :-)

All my keyboard adaptors appear to have been used up, but if you can find me a PC keyboard which has a 5 pin DIN connector, I can program a micro (about $18 each) and fit it inside the keyboard to make it Amiga compatible without the need for external adaptors.
Keyboard needs to have the window$ keys, as these are remapped to become the L&R Amiga keys.  See, and everyone thinks those keys are useless :-P

[Castellen]

That would probably work, never checked it out though.

Has anyone used their A4000 keyboard in an A3000/A2000 through one of those adaptors?