Macintosh II/ci

This computer belongs to a customer who requested a full recap and floppy drive refurbishment.

Work done so far

Initial inspection

Here is the case opened up and the board removed:

Case opened up

Board removed

There was already quite a mess from the leaking electrolytic capacitors:

Electrolytic mess

Electrolytic mess

Main board

After removing the old capacitors I gave the board a thorough cleaning:

Fully cleaned

A few suspect traces were found, these will be cleaned, tinned and protected with new solder mask.

Bad traces

Bad traces

Bad traces

Bad traces

And here is the finished result, the old electrolytic capacitors have been replaced with tantalum versions, bad traces have been repaired, the whole board has been thoroughly cleaned and a new battery fitted:

Logic board completed

Here is the machine powered:

Memory

Power supply

Once the motherboard was done, it was time to move on to the power supply.

PSU opened up

PSU opened up

Overall it was cleaner than I had expected, but the fan was pretty crusty:

Dirty fan

After cleaning, I found it spun freely, so no need to replace it:

Clean fan

Here are all the capacitors removed:

Power supply removed

And the following are pictures of the power supply being re-assembled with the new capacitors, aside from the electrolytics I also replaced 4 Rifa capacitors which can cause a lot of problems:

PSU main board

PSU main board 2

PSU case board

PSU case ready

Floppy drive

The floppy drive was particularly bad, there was a huge amount of caked on dirt inside:

Dirty floppy drive

Very dirty head

Here is the drive fully disassembled:

Floppy drive disassembled

And the same parts cleaned:

Cleaned parts

Here it is reassembled, but unfortunately I found more problems while testing. Whenever a floppy is inserted, it is ejected straight away again.

Floppy reassembled

I ended up testing with a head assembly from another drive, which worked perfectly. After this I measured the resistance between the pins on each of the header cables. I found that on a known good head assembly all the pins had a small amount of resistance between them, while the bad heads tested open circuit on several pins.

Floppy drive issues