Acill's Amiga Repair Thread

[Acill]

So its amazing, this nasty A4000 lives again! This was WAY WAY more work than I ever expected. Enjoy! Here is the project album if you would like to see the progress of it. :banana:

https://goo.gl/photos/3VhkiSKrQSTSB9cTA

[Acill]

I'm the super owner of yet another masterpiece made by Acill: A fantastic A1200 with the works, amazing 1200 unit in excellent shape, loaded with accelerating card, a ton of extra memory, USB and Roadshow for Internet, external CD drive adapter, Indivision connected with DVI/HDMI to hires LCD monitor...It's a monster and I am loving it!

Pictures showing the new member of my family here:

https://goo.gl/photos/2hGWPAHfstVWs3ee6
https://goo.gl/photos/Y3CosAFeHntCMQxq6
https://goo.gl/photos/GHNT3HsYrvYKL6Hw8

You never stop amazing me good friend and California neighbor.

An absolutely AWESOME FUN project I was more than happy to get done at last! I'm glad it arrived safe and you are having fun with it!

[Acill]

Its been awhile since I showed off some work, and I am sorry about that. I've been updating my web site a lot though. Most work is housed over on it now as I complete things. Take a look over at http://www.acill.com for the blog and pictures!

Now, here is a beautifully done CD32 I just finished tonight!

More of this one at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fYhPN7Y7UfeeJPJk2

[Acill]

Acill you forgot to put sticker on my A1200 , it feels like it is not complete. Now I'm not sure if I want to send you my third A1200 for recap .

Haha, well I just got these in yesterday and didn't have any before they came. I will add some to the box next time

[Acill]

Its been awhile since I posted in this thread, travel sucks when you have to do it for work so often! I thought you all would enjoy this current hand building of an A3640 accelerator I am doing. Yes I have access to reverse engineered new boards and parts.

The plan is to do swaps for these once I get faster at it for $150 plus return shipping.  You send in your dead 3640 and get a working one back with new parts and a blue brand new board. Enjoy! And no I am not ready to start doing these on a regular basis just yet.

[Acill]

Are there other boards available?

Yes, I have 11 or so left. Its $150 plus shipping to transplant your bad one over to a new board. That included new replacement resistors, caps and any GALS that have failed. Right now its taking me longer to get caught up on work I have in though so I wont be doing them very fast if your looking to get it done.

[Acill]

Here is what a new one looks like complete.

[Acill]

Here are the results of building an A3640 accelerator from scratch using a newly produced board. If you have a dead one chances are I can revive it like this one is. This will be a $150 + return shipping service. You send in your complete A3640 and receive one of these nice blue ones back, fully restored.

Enjoy!

[Acill]

Challenge for the Chief...  Flip the 20 pin DVI header on an Indivision AGA MK2cr to the opposite side of the board to allow clearance over the surface mount capacitor that impinges on installation in an A4000T.  I would prefer this fix over moving/changing out the SMD cap.  This would require re-fabricating the ribbon cable to match the "mirrored" header.  From what I have measured, even the header flip might not leave enough room between the metal can and the protruding DVI header thru hole pins.  Have your or someone you know of done this already?  Thanks.
 
 Wade

Its not worth all that. If you pay for shipping I will add the new cap for you for nothing. It takes 30 seconds.

[Acill]

How much for the bareboard + resistors... I’d like to build one as well.  Seems easy enough.

I don't sell the boards. You would need to get in touch with chucky. He has an account here now and a for sale thread are amibay.

[Acill]

You can tell most of the time if its been done yes, but if you do it like me and use solder paste its harder to tell. I also am very obsessed with makeing my joints clean, lol...

[Acill]

Kirk's Amazing Blizzard 1240 now with a Rev 6 060!

[Acill]

This 1200 was sent in after the owner reversed a subway USB adapter on the clockport. Ouch!!! Happy to say I saved it and its working better than ever after a recap.

[Acill]

I just wanted to post in here and say, yes I am still doing services on gear. I spend a lot more time over on the Amiga Facebook page. If you are not on it you should be. Its got better deals than ebay )I dont even bother with ebay unless I have no choice) and its got over 14k active users posting every day.

I also post a lot of updates on my web site.

[Acill]

The facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/

[Acill]

+ 1:hammer:

@ Acill

my Viper 060 coming soon to your work shop for a check up ;-)

Hope to get caught up here soon. I got quite a bit done this evening!