CAUTION! I had sellers heavy items shipped to me, in bubble wrap and was not enough in my experience. Bubble wrap popped and deflated.
Actually needs more packing with care. Bubble wrap is too weak and amount used is not *ENOUGH* for heavy CRT. Need to double box that with tight padding in between.

Cheers,

If you can't drop it onto concrete from one metre high and have reasonable confidence it'll survive, then it's not packed enough.

Because there's every chance that's exactly what'll happen to it.

I've received before, a CRT with metal frame smashed in, from the massive blows it clearly took during shipping.

Now, I'd go with no less than 10cm thickness of firm industrial foam battens, times 2 (i.e. double boxed and padded).

pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-08-12, 00:43:

CAUTION! I had sellers heavy items shipped to me, in bubble wrap and was not enough in my experience. Bubble wrap popped and deflated.
Actually needs more packing with care. Bubble wrap is too weak and amount used is not *ENOUGH* for heavy CRT. Need to double box that with tight padding in between.

Cheers,

I've shipped many. Haven't lost one yet.

Not really retro but related, had to buy a new Multimeter today ...old one finally gave up the ghost but I might be able to repair it since its one of the probe sockets thats broken. Also stocked up on Iso, PCB Cleaner and contact cleaner, I've got another bunch of PCI&AGP GPUs on the way that will need cleaning and testing before I throw the ones I dont keep back into the pool to be sold.

I want to get a Oscilloscope and Ultrasonic cleaner eventually and try my hand at reviving boards with Varta Leprosy.

Been doing more organising. I think I've sorted about half my collection now. Just can't stop hoarding though 😄

debs3759 wrote on 2022-08-12, 02:18:

Been doing more organising. I think I've sorted about half my collection now. Just can't stop hoarding though 😄

Looks like you have a rather extensive motherboard collection going on.

holdencars11 wrote on 2022-08-11, 11:58:

Kahenraz wrote on 2022-08-11, 05:48:

I find it easier to dunk it under the faucet and use a nylon brush with some mild detergent. There are way too many tiny crevices to try and clean each individually with a flower fan.

Already done that... the copper and aluminium were very heavily oxidised.. I want it to shine again 🤣

Dunk it into a container or cheap vinegar or ketchup. 😀

liqmat wrote on 2022-08-12, 02:37:

debs3759 wrote on 2022-08-12, 02:18:

Been doing more organising. I think I've sorted about half my collection now. Just can't stop hoarding though 😄

Looks like you have a rather extensive motherboard collection going on.

Yeah, about 150. Going to start testing soon, and thin it out to one or two for each socket (maybe 3 or 4 for sockets that a long life cycle, so I cover all CPUs)

I got briefly distracted from adding SSH support to C-Kermit for Windows by the question: "It builds with Visual C++ 6 SP6, will it build with Visual C++ 5?"

With a few features turned off at compile time (NTLM Auth, and authentication in general), yes it does build with Visual C++ 5.0! Then I wondered about Visual C++ 4.0. A few minor adjustments and it builds there too! So what about Visual C++ 2.0... Well, that took a lot of work and a lot of features turned off (modem/TAPI support, the toolbar, anything using the rich edit control) and whole lot of "if Visual C++ 2.0 or older, do this thing slightly differently" or, in the case of window resize events, do nothing. But it builds and runs. Perhaps the first time C-Kermit has ever run on Windows NT 3.50?

Perhaps someday I'll reimplement the resize code for NT 3.50/3.1 and figure out why kermit file transfers are broken when built with Visual C++ 5.0 or older. But it was an interesting exercise and I finally got to exercise my collection of vintage versions of Visual C++! I did start on getting it to build with Visual C++ 1.0 32-bit Edition and while the compiler handles the code fine I think the included Win32 SDK will take a fair bit of effort if its possible at all as it was complaining about code to do with serial connections. Perhaps a project for another day once I've dealt with all the things necessary to make this useful for modern work.

Installed a DVD burner and a FDD/SD combo that fit my old Lian Li case (the one that hosts the Soyo P4s Dragon Ultra and the Voodoo 5).

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:28:

Installed a DVD burner and a FDD/SD combo that fit my old Lian Li case (the one that hosts the Soyo P4s Dragon Ultra and the Voodoo 5).
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What a great looking system outside (and I presume inside). This is the kind of machine that would make me think: "That's it... there' no better retro machine than this... I'm done with buying up hardware."

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:28:

Installed a DVD burner and a FDD/SD combo that fit my old Lian Li case (the one that hosts the Soyo P4s Dragon Ultra and the Voodoo 5).
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Yeah, that's a flat out gorgeous looking system.

Thank you guys !

Meatball wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:32:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:28:

Installed a DVD burner and a FDD/SD combo that fit my old Lian Li case (the one that hosts the Soyo P4s Dragon Ultra and the Voodoo 5).
20220812_162242.jpg
20220812_162230.jpg

What a great looking system outside (and I presume inside). This is the kind of machine that would make me think: "That's it... there' no better retro machine than this... I'm done with buying up hardware."

Not so good with all these cables, but parts sure look good !
What you say is exactly what I have in mind, I have several of this "definitive" projects, but covering every aspect takes time and is expansive. For this one I might add a fan controller (grey too, of course) because Molex fans are noisy.

A few years ago (~2018?) I was on the lookout for red PCB hardware to make a build. Back then I scored a Iwill P4HT2 i845PE s478 motherboard and a Powercolor R96-HD3 (Radeon 9600/256MB) for next to nothing, but both were shot so I quit the idea. Three days ago I found them in the storage and decided to give them more time before throwing away.

Turns out that the motherboard had a corrupt BIOS. After I flashed with the TL866 the latest image I got off the net, I actually got the POST card to show something useful and tested it with a PCI S3 card. Then I cleaned thoroughly all the slots/contacts on that thing and I got it to boot consistently every time. Took out of my CPU box a nice SL6EF 2.4GHz FSB533 Northwood to run it with. As for the GFX card, it had three blown 1000uf electrolytics which had to be replaced. After cleaning the HS, lubing the fan and changing the old yellow thermal paste residue to fresh MX4, I got it all to work.

I'm thinking of making it a Win98SE box, though I wonder about 9600's DOS game compatibility. For sound, I plan to disable the on-board ALC, might pair it either with a SB Live! or a Yamaha WaveForce 192XG.

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-12, 15:12:

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Thank you guys !

Meatball wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:32:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-12, 14:28:

Installed a DVD burner and a FDD/SD combo that fit my old Lian Li case (the one that hosts the Soyo P4s Dragon Ultra and the Voodoo 5).
20220812_162242.jpg
20220812_162230.jpg

What a great looking system outside (and I presume inside). This is the kind of machine that would make me think: "That's it... there' no better retro machine than this... I'm done with buying up hardware."

Not so good with all these cables, but parts sure look good !
What you say is exactly what I have in mind, I have several of this "definitive" projects, but covering every aspect takes time and is expansive. For this one I might add a fan controller (grey too, of course) because Molex fans are noisy.

I've always Loved that Lian Li case. It's just so simple but also beautiful and elegant. It reminds me of the simple and clean looks of Case Labs cases.

Explaining for the 1001th time on my lunch break to people that my job sits in the flight path of a airport, has 1 bar of cell reception, and has a heavily restricted wifi network due to a "security event" a couple years ago and the knee-jerk reaction that went from WFWG 311 level security to security that often breaks/restricts actual work from happening making any sort of use of a cellular device tricky at best.

Jeesus, and people wonder why us I.T. people are cranky all the damn time. Yeah, remember yesterday, when I told you the same thing? Shoot, they'd be the ones standing in the middle of a remote region looking at their cell phone shedding a tear because they don't know what to do - I'd be the one who'd just walk away and listen for predators as I try to find a way out of my situation.

PD2JK wrote on 2022-08-11, 06:45:

PD2JK wrote on 2022-08-10, 21:12:

Today I did something really stupid. I stopped a spinning CPU fan and then probably a transistor blew on an AOpen MX3S-T board. Sigh...

Repaired it today. Salvaged from a donor Asus P5S800-VM; I took a transistor next to the fan header and it works.

Thanks for pointing out how it was fixed, I had no idea it was such a small / basic component that would lead to dead fan headers. And I used to have the Aopen MX3S, I quite liked that board back in the day.

The last few days I've been continuing my reversing and remaking the CT1350B PCB, I have a netlist from a schematic that I can now make sense of, it's coming together - the downside is now my dreams are all about circuit routing, argh.

Why not learn to do a proper PCB routing especially adding inductors and better capacitors on voltage planes and also design in a audio/analog islands to make a new sound blaster that is *not* noisy maker anymore?

That's far beyond my level of knowledge / capability right now. I'm just trying to repair a CT1350B that I got hold of, with its ISA connector cut off.

Not today, but a few days ago I decided it was time to get my 2 quad xeon motherboards up and running. After a several month hiatus. I'll be in touch.