Amiga restoration

[royne]

My first project

As a kid my father purchased a Commodore 64 (i think a month nagging or something like that did the trick). Later I bought a 500+ and a 1200 now this era has come and gone for me Commodore died! Once in a while I pop in to remember the former glory of those days.

But last week…

While cleaning out the basement at work what did I find… two Amiga 4000 a 030 and 040. Dusty missing some plastic and screws, but they both worked fine.

I never had or even saw one before so this was awesome. It first came to me the most fun I ever head in front of a computer was the Amiga era. So why not restore them to their former glory.

All of you here are doing a splendid job in keeping the era alive.

So this is my part.

I will keep a log of my progress and take some pictures and upload while I’m working. Maybe it will inspire someone to do that long overdue makeover on the stuff in the closet.

And as I don’t know squat I will probably need all the help I can get!

So the first thing I need to know is the color sample code of casing and front of an Amiga 4000 desktop. If I can’t clean them 100% ill hire a professional painter to do this for me but I need to know the exact colors.

Stay tuned!

[royne]

Thank you for the tip Retro i checked the batteries and they are not leaking
and seam to be in good shape. But ill do as you suggested and remove them asap.

I have uploaded some before shots.

030



040





Monitors




Believe it or not i found this in the same box as everything else. Seams my first order of businesses is to correct this mistake!

[royne]

@ Retro
ops my mistake but you gave me some tips as well =)

"The front panels on both machines look good - not yellowed at all."
well the camera flash did wonders for the yellow tint.. No you are probably right that they are in good shape. As i don't know squat i just suspected them to be all white and shining as the day they where built. But they will be  


@ Oli_hd
Ill make the most of my find. And i give you my word if i don't! I wont put the stuff in the basement! Ill put it back in rotation with you guy's. Where it belongs!  

@ McVenco
redirecting thanks for battery change to you

@ WotTheFook
I have sent what you told me to a painter lets see if he can decode the binary in your post
Thanks  

[royne]

Well i finally got around to my first try of cleaning them.
Maybe this step is boring non Amiga stuff but i want to document everything so...


The big problem as seen on the image below was that the rubber foots under had melted resulting in black stuff with the same properties of oil mixed with asphalt (not joking).


I have no idea if this is something that is common on Amiga desktops but i hope not.

If i start telling all the ways i failed cleaning this stuff of you will laugh and call me a retard.

Removing the rubber foots was easy ones you figure out that it isn't glued on. Its attached as a sticker, you just need something sharp to get trough the oily stuff.


After you peal up a part of the sticker you can remove the rubber with your fingers.

so now i need to buy new shiny ones.. any one selling


with the rubber foots removed i needed a way to clean the rubber, plastic oil from hell. My strongest whiskey didn't work. I ended up using 85% Alcogel, the stuff nurses use to clean their hands. It worked but it still --  the better part of a day to get it all off.

A word of waring.
If you want to remove peaces of the old guaranty / warranty label. do NOT use anything sharper then your thumbnail. I almost chipped the paint using a knife.


Well after all this i am happy with the result. Ill get to work on the plastic next. the 030 have a nasty crack in it. Maybe i have to turn to amigakit.



@Tahoe
maybe a modem. hear is another picture of the 030 top card output.



until next time.