Acill's Amiga Repair Thread

[madgrizzle]

Is there anyway to reasonably tell from a picture if a motherboard has been recapped?  Would the caps look different or maybe the solder points on the bottom would look different?

[kreciu]

Yes, they look... hand made = not super precise. I mean Acill job is like a machine, but still you can tell difference

[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.

[kirk_m]

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

Couldn't be happier with it.  Thanks, Paul.

[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.

[mindprober]

I'm interested. Since I am sure I will find more than one Amiga enthusiast page on Facebook, can you provide a link?

Thanks.

[giZmo350]

I'm interested. Since I am sure I will find more than one Amiga enthusiast page on Facebook, can you provide a link?

Exactly... every time this "said" Amiga Facebook page is referenced, there's never a link and I can never seem to find "The One" because there are just too damn many Amiga Facebook pages! :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Exactly... every time this "said" Amiga Facebook  page is referenced, there's never a link and I can never seem to find  "The One" because there are just too damn many Amiga Facebook pages! :lol:

I assume they mean the one with 15,000 members.  Look for it, you'll find it.  :lol:

Edit - the only downside to it is, unlike a forum, posts tend to get buried and forgotten pretty quickly.  And it's not like Facebook has search tools to help you find "where was that thread that had such-and-such an answer from two years ago", you know?  

Edit again - it's up to 17,972 members now.

[mindprober]

So the 17k member group I found would not be the correct one?  

EDIT-- Following Mike's edit, my post loses its humor.

So to put an end to the guessing, this is the correct group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/

[awol2k]

So the 17k member group I found would not be the correct one?

I sought and I did not find!

- cheers for the link btw!

[kirk_m]

I assume they mean the one with 15,000 members.  Look for it, you'll find it.  :lol:

Edit - the only downside to it is, unlike a forum, posts tend to get buried and forgotten pretty quickly.  And it's not like Facebook has search tools to help you find "where was that thread that had such-and-such an answer from two years ago", you know?  

Edit again - it's up to 17,972 members now.

Not ENTIRELY true about the lack of search function.  On the left side of the page of all facebook groups (when viewed from a desktop computer browser), there is a SEARCH bar for searching for topics/people/etc. within that group.

Not that I am a big fan of Facebook...I much prefer forums.

[Acill]

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

[gertsy]

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.

Neat.

[klx300r]

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Not that I am a big fan of Facebook...I much prefer forums.

+ 1:hammer:

@ Acill

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