Yeah doing it on the dining table is already pushing it for me wrt kitchen proximity, I don't think I'd want to do it on the stove haha

Will do!

I'm sure you're right. I don't intend to make this into a job or start a youtube channel or anything, it'd just be me taking care of old parts so that I can enjoy them in a select few builds as well as maybe building a few fun little kits here and there. Doing it on my dining table does still worry …

I'm guessing you are quite young, live in a relatively new house, and have been told your whole life that various things are dangerous. It depends on your definition of quite young and relatively new. I'm well into the back half of my 20s, my house was built in the 80s, and I definitely didn't have …

While I've been interested in old technology, particularly computers, for a long time, only recently have I taken it upon myself to get physically involved in the hobby, so far I've been having a blast. This is something that I really care about and enjoy working on, but I have a problem. I know I'm …

You should not need to recap the Tecra 7xxCDT models, at least not for a few years yet anyway. The reason it's mentioned in relation to Toshibas, is that many of their 486 laptops had a bad PSU design that caused one cap to fail prematurely. Those were breaking even in the early 2000s. Also the …

Welcome on the forum, too! Maybe it is not at all necessary to recap, maybe it's sufficient just to replace the NiMH cells? This "process" is why I hate laptops, btw. Thank you! And yeah, I'd always been wary of grabbing a laptop because I know they're invariably a pain to work on, but it's hard to …

Good job taking the nimh batteries out before they can do too much damage, I do the same with every Toshiba I get hold of. Thank you I was lucky enough to stumble upon a thread here about the nicad/nimh batteries in these old Toshiba laptops before I received mine. Double lucky the batteries hadn't …

Hey all! New to the forum and new to being an active participant in the hobby, I've enjoyed it from afar for a long time, but decided it was finally time to get into it myself. I lucked out and managed to grab a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT with accessories off Craigslist for free! Took the RTC and sleep …