Wow, that would be great! I'll gladly take anything you can send my way, along with paying for shipping. An email will be on it's way with my shipping info.
Thanks for the tips, that is very helpful. I'm probably going to just buy a long Torx 15 to have around in case I need to open it again. But your tips will definitely be referenced again when the time comes. Wish me luck! :-) On Jun 7, 3:11 pm, Abel Ortiz Monasterio <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 20 MB for sure and maybe a 40 MB. I have to look, I got them from a > couple of beat up SE/'s so I could get the CRT out for my SE/30. I'm in the > process off moving so I may take me a few days. If you send me you adress > I'll send you one. They are to small for my SE/30. > > I'm assuming that you have not opened the SE yet so let me give you a few > tips, and there is plenty of info on line. > > When you take it apart be very careful whit the CRT connection it is very > easy to break. You pretty much have to open it with a very long Torx 15 > screw driver (or make one whit a bit, some one used sueper glue and a > straw), then you need to pull the power cables from the mother board (there > is a little hole for you to push the back of the cable so it unclips), slide > it out and before completely pulling it, pull the speaker cable so you can > un-bolt the drives. The common opinion is that the CRT needs to be > discharged, you will find plenty of posts on line on how to do it if you > just goggle discharge CRT. And you will find a few that say that it is not > necessary. > > It is a bit intimidating the first time but it gets easy after a few triesl > > My email is [email protected] > > Hope this helps > > Abel > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, pcguru83 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi guys, new to the Vintage Mac group--looking forward to > > participating here as I attempt to get my newly acquired Macintosh SE > > FDHD in fully working condition. :-) > > > As I said, I acquired a (mostly) working Macintosh SE FDHD over the > > weekend. It's in excellent condition, and I snagged it for only $18. > > Unfortunately, it only boots sporadically at best. I've been able to > > get it to boot up completely only about three times. Best I can tell > > from googling, seems it has a hard drive suffering from "stiction". > > I'd love to replace the drive in this old Macintosh, but I'm unclear > > exactly what I should be looking for. > > > Will any SCSI hard drive be compatible in this machine? Seems to be > > extremely difficult to find the lower capacity disk drives at a > > reasonable price. Higher capacity drives seems much easier to locate > > and much more reasonably priced. What are my options here? From the > > same googling I did earlier, most of the sites listed as selling > > vintage Mac parts haven't been updated in years. Is there a place to > > get something to fix this ailing classic at a decent price? > > > Thanks for the help, look forward to checking back often. :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
