Hello Everybody,
I got a couple more projects knocked out over the winter and thought I'd share my journey. First, a big thank you to @Cereth and @Lemony Vengeance for the great deal and delivery!
Some of you may remember there was a deal Cereth did as a "Black Friday" special in order to clear out some old stock. These Diamond Blues were a couple of them. They required a bit of repair and a little elbow-grease; but they were easier than my Astros! Here's how they came:
All in all, not bad! They had the usual signs of use but no abuse or anything. Just lots of soda spills and tar. As far as repairs went, the two biggest things were a non-functioning LCD (turned out to be a fan connected to the wrong connector) and some broken traces from mechanical failure on the Wei Ya PSU. Removing a bit of solder-mask and soldering a big glob fixed that.
As I usually do, I'll try to keep a table organized and up-to-date as I remember what I bought. Hopefully I can track everything down.
Here's a video of the reassembly process:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVFxOGzRhg
Control Panels:
Lots of buildup on these guys. I used a lot of simple green; but the real hero was this all-purpose cleaner from target:
https://www.target.com/p/method-fre...pray-bottle-28-fl-oz/-/A-13531143#lnk=sametab.
I was shocked how well that stuff worked. I sprayed it on, let it sit for a minute or two, and the tar would slide right off.
For scratches in the CP I started around 400 grit, then 600, then 1000 grit. Once I had a nice shine with few to no visible scratches, I re-applied the brushed look with a scotch pad. To get them as straight as I could I leaned it up against a cardboard box.
Came out pretty nice.
I'll spare some of the details for the control panels. They're pretty straightforward though. Disassemble, clean, put back together.
Onto the main course:
I'll take you through most of what I did in the next few posts but I won't cover both. The processes were mainly copy/paste anyway.
Here's the purchase sheet. I'll keep filling it in as I find purchase history.
I got a couple more projects knocked out over the winter and thought I'd share my journey. First, a big thank you to @Cereth and @Lemony Vengeance for the great deal and delivery!
Some of you may remember there was a deal Cereth did as a "Black Friday" special in order to clear out some old stock. These Diamond Blues were a couple of them. They required a bit of repair and a little elbow-grease; but they were easier than my Astros! Here's how they came:
All in all, not bad! They had the usual signs of use but no abuse or anything. Just lots of soda spills and tar. As far as repairs went, the two biggest things were a non-functioning LCD (turned out to be a fan connected to the wrong connector) and some broken traces from mechanical failure on the Wei Ya PSU. Removing a bit of solder-mask and soldering a big glob fixed that.
As I usually do, I'll try to keep a table organized and up-to-date as I remember what I bought. Hopefully I can track everything down.
Here's a video of the reassembly process:
Control Panels:
Lots of buildup on these guys. I used a lot of simple green; but the real hero was this all-purpose cleaner from target:
https://www.target.com/p/method-fre...pray-bottle-28-fl-oz/-/A-13531143#lnk=sametab.
I was shocked how well that stuff worked. I sprayed it on, let it sit for a minute or two, and the tar would slide right off.
For scratches in the CP I started around 400 grit, then 600, then 1000 grit. Once I had a nice shine with few to no visible scratches, I re-applied the brushed look with a scotch pad. To get them as straight as I could I leaned it up against a cardboard box.
Came out pretty nice.
I'll spare some of the details for the control panels. They're pretty straightforward though. Disassemble, clean, put back together.
Onto the main course:
I'll take you through most of what I did in the next few posts but I won't cover both. The processes were mainly copy/paste anyway.
Here's the purchase sheet. I'll keep filling it in as I find purchase history.
I seem to have seen a lot more dia Blues recently, I assume as a lot of them have reached the end of their working life and have been put out to pasture in the home market. Looks like you've got a great space to use them in too.
