TRASH to TREASURE - Macintosh Classic Restoration

Great video but PLEASE discharge the Anode cap with a flathead screwdriver connected to ground (or the metallic shield, preferably both). The shocks these CRT's can give are nasty, it's definitely worth the hassle 😃

montage music was crazy loud compared to the rest...

Awesome. You put in so much work. I had one of these back in the 90s. A classic II. Great machine for its time.

Oh my great video ... amazily astounding.

"Isopropyl alcohol makes quick work of this"
*Proceeds to take a long time*

UV lights are good and all but dont you have plenty of sunlight in Australia? I know in winter months it can get a bit dull if that was the case. Great video though.

Are you able to advise what size the caps were you replaced please

I loved this video. The Mac Classic (4/40) was my first computer when I was in high school. Major geek points for the raSCSI hack. I will say, though, that OS 6.0.8 worked much better than 7 on the Classic.

Not discharging the CRT. Attacking the caps with tin snips. Jesus Christ dude. Couldn't watch any further.

Hi - I really enjoyed this and I hope you do many more retro restoration videos just like it!! Thanks

Amazing job!

Is no one gonna mention the grapes?

Did you give the rest of the logic board a soak and scrub in IPA? I see a bunch more dried cap juice on the IC legs.

That RP mod was super cool. Might do that myself with my Mac Classic II

hey if i end up getting a Mac classic and need it restored can i send it down your way? Sorry to hear about the floods. I was in the same boat in 2019 up in NQLD.. Thank god for insurance. 🙂

Is it possible to fit a modern computer in that thing

You have those soldering tweezers. You could have easily used those to remove the SMD caps instead of ripping them off.

You use your fancy soldering iron to recap the logic board, but you're cheap iron to solder the SMDs on SCSI board. 😂

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With the RaSCSI, do you run into any problems when shutting down the machine from the OS where the image becomes corrupted? I usually have to power down the PI first through the web interface so it can dump the cache or else I risk corrupting the disk image for the HDD.

Awesome! I would recommend getting some of that conformal coating spray and coating the boards and whatnot to prevent corrosion in the future...it will live inside now but still would be a good idea for longevity!
Great going on the restoration!
Keep em coming!!!!

The patience and craftsmanship in this video 👌🏽

I always thought it would be cool to put new up to date everything inside one of these fit a flat screen to it.

Hey Pendleton 115, was wondering in your video for the first version of the Bluetooth iPod what did you use to mount the Bluetooth board to the metal plate. I can see two small with things underneath but I have no idea what they are.

Great video, but ripping the caps off like that really hurts to watch….Desoldering them definitely avoids removing the pads incidentally.

Thank you for this instructive and illustrative film. Great job! Please continue ✌🏻!

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Bad video

Really great restoration! I sold an Apple Plus on eBay for £38 recently.. now I know what they use them for :D

Careful with the neck board - my Classic's CRT was killed due to the neck board getting knocked.

You got lucky. Mine had the battery explode, and it destroyed the irreplaceable RTC chip.

OMG !!! **NEVER** rip caps off the mobo with snips or pliers !!!! Desolder them !!!!!

It's really nice seeing someone who has similar interests to me. Love your channel now that I found it!

What would be real dope, is if some took an old Macintosh like this and put the guts of an iPod Pro inside it, updated the screen, and maybe made an app you could click on and run classic macOS for the nostalgia.

Do you answer your Twitter DMs?

you should put a colour crt in it

I can't believe how incredibly cool this is, thanks for the great video.

Great job! We had one of these in my school back in the days as well. It was one of the first computers in the school. This one and an some newer Mac model were donated by a parent that worked as a doctor. He had the money our school didn't hold at this time. They didn't see much real use, we mostly used them for some basic games but it was a good introduction to computers for most of us.

We used the machines in my high school for the same reasons. Any chance they came from Texas? LOL

Why bother? Macs have always been crap.

Well the apple 2 was ok

Need a Macintosh Lisa? It powers on, but needs either a hard drive, or just a boot loader/OS. I used it way back in the 90's, maintained and ran it at least once a year until 2014 when i moved the drive platen during cleaning (axis protrudes the case), and it never booted up again since, but it sure wants to.

Great looking machine. Really puckered my sphincter to see you manhandle the cap on the CRT without discharging it in the video though LOL. 😂

This is awesome great work ✌️❤️

Good job

Job well done! Hope things settle down for you.

you should run doom on it