Best way to find a new home for Amiga stuff?

[Great Sage]

Greetings all

Long time lurker, first time poster. I need some advice was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. While I still tinker with my collection of Amiga bits and pieces I don't have the time and money that I used to and I feel that some of it is just going to waste sitting in my shed. I'd like to sell to someone who will get more use out of it, but there is my problem. I notice many people on Amiga forms seem critical of eBay, and I have never sold anything online before so I don't know if this is the way to go or if there is a better alternative. Also seeing as how some of this stuff is heavy and/or fragile is shipping overseas a wise idea? Selling it nationally (in Australia) seems the safest bet but then I guess that will reduce the chances of my gear finding a good home.

Any suggestions/advice is welcome.


Oh yeah and the stuff I'm considering parting with at the moment;

Picasso IV, boxed - was in my A4000 but after the 4000 motherboard died due to battery leakage I haven't had any use for it.

A1000, with Phoenix board and 2mb of RAM - I recently restored the case using Retr0brite and would love to upgrade the hell out this thing to make an ultimate ECS Amiga, but again I don't have the time, money or space sadly.

SAS/C, Blitz Basic 2 and AMOS original disks, manuals and reference guides etc. Does anyone even have a use for this sort of thing anymore?

Also have 040' 40Mhz accelerators for the 1200 and 4000, both with 32mb on board (I think).

[Great Sage]

Hi Mr Sage.

Where in Australia are you ? And if I may ask, what was the ultimate end of the 4000 Motherboard, was it sent to the bin in the sky or do you still have it ?

  I live just outside of Canberra atm. I still have the 4000 motherboard in storage, I removed it from its case and pulled the RAM from it. I noticed the battery starting to leak a few years ago and carefully removed it, cleaned the board and and soldered a replacement on it, it all seemed fine but then one day it refused to boot up and after opening the case and inspecting it I noticed some corrosion on the circuit traces near the new battery, I guess I didn't clean it up as well as I'd thought or didn't get to it in time.

[Great Sage]

Well, i will leave you to decide what to do with the motherboard, but if its decided you want to "Dispose of it" i will pay for it to be disposed of to Melbourne..

I suppose it all depends on how much its going to cost you to fix it up (if its able to be).  The "Gunk" sits underneath the chips and they have to be removed to clean it up...

either Iso (Isopropyl) or Baking soda paste (with water) as it neutralizes the acidity.  I personally like to just flood (Yes literally FLOOD) the area with ISO because of its evaporation rate.

As I recall I scrubbed the board with baking soda and an old toothbrush dipped in to isopropyl before I replaced the battery then wiped it all down with isopropyl wipes. This was probably 4-5 years ago and it ran fine for some time after that, but apparently the corrosion was still there and spreading. I've uploaded some pics of it along with photos of the other stuff.

Speaking of battery corrosion I tried to fire up the A1200 040 accelerator today only to find its battery has leaked everywhere and the card no longer works

Gruesome close up shots of the dead accelerator are also here;
http://picasaweb.google.com/amithlon/AmigaBitsNPieces#