Awesome Acill CD-ROM repair!!!

[giZmo350]

So got lucky and scored a "like brand new" Mac LCIII in the box. Everything included in the box as if I bought it at the Apple store. So I thought I'd get an AppleCD-SC Plus to match - cheap. Little did I know that every one of these Sony SCSI CD units are dead. Most go for big bucks on eBay broken and listed as "untested - as is". Did a lot of reading and found that all have leaking caps on the main logic board. I disassembled (wow - what a pain!) and looked at the board - yep, all 9 caps leaking. But I noticed that the traces were not all eaten up yet. So, sent the logic board to Acill. He recapped it beautifully! I put the board back in and.... nuthin! Just pops the caddy right back out. I figured that the optic was toast - as others have stated on the webs. I tore the unit completely down this time and kind of set everything hanging loosely and set the unit on it's side hooked up directly to the LCIII (getting a CD driver on the LCIII was a real pain to say the least!) Fired everything up and the CD unit worked! I found that there is a rubber boot wraped around the optic head that had worked it's way up the head and was interfering with the head movement. There is a real nice inspection plate that is removable from the bottom of the CD unit so that you can adjust the laser intensity and watch everything. I took care of all the little problems and put the whole unit back together. SUCCESS! What a sweet 1X CD unit! These are rare as hell in working condition and to me is a real gem. Thank You Paul! AKA Acill! You the man!!!!!

https://acillclassics.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/macintosh-color-classic/

BTW, there was a genuine Newtek Video Toaster 4.1 CD in the caddy when I got the unit from eBay ..... LOL

Enjoy the pics.......

[AmigaEd]

Wow! That looks really clean! Very interesting and Thanks for sharing!

[Acill]

Thank you and I am honestly flattered by the compliment. I was happy to be able to help out and even more so knowing its working again!

[guest20923]

Nice one. looks great. I'm a bit jelly.