Acill's Amiga Repair Thread

[Acill]

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.

Haha, some of us work hard. I wasn't in aviation. I was actually a Gunners Mate (Missiles) Still work for the Navy again after accepting an Engineering Technician position here in Port Hueneme. I worked as an Engineering Technician for Intel for a number of years after I retired, just didn't like the place much. Its good being back on my old Navy System again. I'm not the average Gunners Mate obviously. I went on and got Computer Science degrees while in while the others all chased girls and got drunk in port.

[Acill]

SMD caps all removed and the pads cleaned up. Just waiting on my Hakko 880 desoldering gun to test out on the last two through holes. This one will be done tomorrow.

[Acill]

Thanks guys, I do what I can!

UPDATE: As of today I will now be doing power supplies too. I did one last night and had no problems with it.

[Acill]

OK. My two mobos are almost ready to ship . If you don't mid you can always show progress on forum. I would really appreciate it!

I sure will. Also please note that I will be out of town on a work related trip from June 13th through June 18th.

[Acill]

Another A4000 saved from the evil leaking caps! This one heading back to wlemonds in Texas.

[Acill]

After being asked to put up a web site I have started to update my existing one. I'm working on adding new items as I have time, but a few basics are ready and live.

Check it out at http://www.acill.com

[Acill]

I'm glad to see things are picking up for you! The A600 you fixed up for me is purring along nicely. But I'm most happy having a real, friendly, and local person who actually knows both their electronics and Amiga stuff. Thanks for this service for the community!

Awesome to hear!!! Thanks for the compliments. Its very much appreciated.

[Acill]

Awesome to hear! I'm glad to help, especially getting an A4000T up again!

[Acill]

As a reminder for those looking for work done, I can only do so much. If you send me a board with a large amount of battery damage and severe cap leakage I will do my best to get things back to normal. Replacing caps is not an issue, but when doing so leads to other issues being discovered I unfortunately don't have the test equipment on hand to dig deep.

[Acill]

Don't think I asked but how much for an A2000 using good caps where you can, non electrolytic?

What do you mean non electrolytic? The A2000 is all through hole radial caps. The only ones i would use are Panasonic Radials, which are electrolytic. I dont do ceramic caps. Its not the proper way to do it and it can lead to other issues.

The A2000 and 3000 are a lot of extra work. Its about $68 to $80 depending on the caps and how long it takes to get them all out.

[Acill]

@Mechy

Yes! This is what I was thinking.

Ah, I use hybrids. They last nearly forever and wont leak for a long long time!

https://industrial.panasonic.com/ww/products/capacitors/polymer-capacitors

[Acill]

Some progress work on kreciu's A1200. This one came in with damage when it was shipped to him.  SMD cap was broken off, the power connecter is very damaged and the coil below it was broken. I've desoldered all the caps, the old power connector and the coil. I'll be putting all new ones on next.

[Acill]

Another update on his kreciu's 1200. Recap done and just waiting for the filter and new power connector.

[Acill]

Is that scrape damage to the ROM's and custom chips? I wonder if it was actually packaged or did they just stick an address label onto the motherboard?

He told me when it was sent to him something inside came free and bounced around in the case during shipping.

[Acill]

I am out of town until the 25th, but I just got work that I received my next order of spare parts in yesterday. I only have a couple of boards left to complete when I return and can take in more any time.

Do you need a PCMCIA slot replaced on your A600 or A1200? I CAN DO IT!

Struggle with those crappy SIMM slots on an A4000, YUP I can do that too!

Need a Buster 09 removed and replaced with a socket so you can put in a Buster 11? Lets do it!

I can also fix traces, chips and other damage caused from battery leaks and caps.

[Acill]

Thanks goes out to SACC Guy for the A3630.  I just got done with a recap and it looks great now.