>On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Tom and Lisa Peters wrote:
>
>> >Hi,
>> >Could someone do me a great favour and send me the bit by bit instructions
>> >for how to cure your own 'ticking dock'. Mine's finally succumbed and for
>> >some obscure reason I can't seem to find the instructions which I'd so
>> >carefully stored. I think it's a case of storing them so well I can't
>> >remember where I hid them :-)
>
>Sorry if this seems a little brief, but the odds are that if you are a lay
>person fixing this may be too difficult. You have to drill out some
>rivets to open up the power supply and then desolder and replace a
>thru-hole component or two. At any rate the main filter capacitors in the
Well, For one of my projects, I desoldered the switch off of a 6100
power supply and replaced it with wires to a new switch (part of
"Frankentosh", my 6100 in a ATX case project).
>power supply have blown or dried out. You have to replace them, and you
>have to be careful to get a replacement electrolitic capacitor that has
>the the same or higher ratings and to insert it with the right polarity.
>I'm not sure if Radio Shack carries capacitors that large. It would
>probably be simpler to get a replacement power supply or for that matter
>getting a replacement dock might be even more simple.
>
>Ryan
Gimme Gimme !
Mad Dog
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