I usually call it acid as well, it may look and act like acid, but it's actually alkali! That's why you need to use an acidic solution to neutralize it, vinegar in your case. Nice restoration! Can't wait to see the future upgrades!
The retrobrite reminds me of those infomercials with those unbelievable before and after. The difference here is that you are really making it happen. Leave it to Print n Play for your legacy electronic restoration!
Nice work! I like that you put a *real* hard drive in there rather than one of those CompactFlash adapters. Most are just resigned to using the latter plus working (old) hard drives are getting rarer to find.
Reagrding the battery leak, I strongly suggest scraping away all the soldermask in area affected by leak - I can still see some green traces. That means that battery acid (which actually is a base) is till present underneath a soldermask and will continue to eat those traces away and will eventually lead that motherboard to fail. I suggest removing it altogether, tinning traces with soldering iron and protecting it with a layer (or two) of transparent paint (or soldermask if you have one). Nice machine, I'm glad you saved it. Personally, I'd not add a CD drive to it, but a sound card like ess 1868 or sb16 will be great for its time period.
Definitely going to do that. Searching for a fiberglass pen as we speak. Will clean, tin, and reinforce any traces that need it when I do the upgrades I have lined up for it Sound card for sure! Considering an optical drive because I have a few 486 era games on CD that I would love to see on original hardware. Thanks for watching, and the feedback!
I would recommend replacing/removing all parts around the battery and remove the coating with a fiberglass pen. If you neutralize what’s on the surface you won’t stop the corrosion. Remove coating, scrape away the corroded material, neutralize, wash and re-tin if possible. You might want to add some wiring to bad traces. Your solution might look okay for now, but it’ll be prone to failure sooner or later.
If you intend to use this for gaming, maybe an oldschool gamepad and flight stick? Surely some awesome games from that era to play using those peripherals. Great restoration as always!
It does indeed! Except it is meant to slow down, not speed up. Old software was often based on CPU cycles, so timings got thrown off as CPUs got faster. Turbo allowed you to cut the CPU speed on the fly, allowing old software and games to work properly.
I was going to suggest a retro-themed case badge from Geekenspiel, but I see your case already has one. I think a 16-bit sound card and an optical drive would be appropriate upgrades. I bought a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 for my 386SX, then used "Unisound" to enable the Sound Blaster functionality in DOS. (I don't remember if I found drivers for Windows 3.1, but it was a way to get genuine OPL2/3 sound in Sound Blaster-compatible DOS games, without gambling that I wouldn't be able to find drivers for a generic card - assuming the generic card wasn't supported by Unisound as well - or paying through the nose for a non-Plug and Play Sound Blaster card.) Might be one method to consider to getting a sound card to work in this PC. Someday I will do a video on this upgrade...
I've got a few legacy Sound Blaster cards kicking around, so I definitely think that is the route I will go. An optical drive for sure, too! I have some multimedia stuff from that era, looking forward to trying it out.
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I see a lot of quality in this channel, it deserves to grow a lot in the number of subscribers ... For now, I'm here.
Glad to have you hear! Plenty more content coming, too
Time for the hotdog theme😄
I used to run it, not going to lie
Great job! Love the music you used for the repair montage too!
Every montage deserves a good tune!
I usually call it acid as well, it may look and act like acid, but it's actually alkali! That's why you need to use an acidic solution to neutralize it, vinegar in your case. Nice restoration! Can't wait to see the future upgrades!
Ohhh I see your coworker finally showed up!
Yeah, but it's better when he doesn't. Everything is cat-astrophic when he is.
@@PNPRetro purrrrr chaos
The retrobrite reminds me of those infomercials with those unbelievable before and after. The difference here is that you are really making it happen. Leave it to Print n Play for your legacy electronic restoration!
Nice work! I like that you put a *real* hard drive in there rather than one of those CompactFlash adapters. Most are just resigned to using the latter plus working (old) hard drives are getting rarer to find.
I've definitely used the adapters in other devices, but I wanted the iconic whirl and click a mechanical drive brings
Reagrding the battery leak, I strongly suggest scraping away all the soldermask in area affected by leak - I can still see some green traces. That means that battery acid (which actually is a base) is till present underneath a soldermask and will continue to eat those traces away and will eventually lead that motherboard to fail. I suggest removing it altogether, tinning traces with soldering iron and protecting it with a layer (or two) of transparent paint (or soldermask if you have one). Nice machine, I'm glad you saved it. Personally, I'd not add a CD drive to it, but a sound card like ess 1868 or sb16 will be great for its time period.
Definitely going to do that. Searching for a fiberglass pen as we speak. Will clean, tin, and reinforce any traces that need it when I do the upgrades I have lined up for it
Sound card for sure! Considering an optical drive because I have a few 486 era games on CD that I would love to see on original hardware.
Thanks for watching, and the feedback!
I would recommend replacing/removing all parts around the battery and remove the coating with a fiberglass pen. If you neutralize what’s on the surface you won’t stop the corrosion. Remove coating, scrape away the corroded material, neutralize, wash and re-tin if possible. You might want to add some wiring to bad traces. Your solution might look okay for now, but it’ll be prone to failure sooner or later.
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a more thorough cleaning as you suggest when I take it apart again.
good music choice for this episode
Thanks Chris!
If you intend to use this for gaming, maybe an oldschool gamepad and flight stick? Surely some awesome games from that era to play using those peripherals. Great restoration as always!
Good call. I think I have just the accessories...
You should tell your friend that he is very silly for not having removed that battery earlier.
Well, his name isn't Battery Professor, so I guess it's excusable.
@@PNPRetro 😀
Ahh, the good ol Trident ISA video card.
I feel like every old machine I ever worked on had one
Man those boot up sounds are so recognizable!
Does the turbo button ever do anything? Always felt like at best it would speed up the fans haha 😆
It does indeed! Except it is meant to slow down, not speed up. Old software was often based on CPU cycles, so timings got thrown off as CPUs got faster. Turbo allowed you to cut the CPU speed on the fly, allowing old software and games to work properly.
@@PNPRetro well shit, you learn something new everyday! Great info!
I was going to suggest a retro-themed case badge from Geekenspiel, but I see your case already has one.
I think a 16-bit sound card and an optical drive would be appropriate upgrades. I bought a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 for my 386SX, then used "Unisound" to enable the Sound Blaster functionality in DOS. (I don't remember if I found drivers for Windows 3.1, but it was a way to get genuine OPL2/3 sound in Sound Blaster-compatible DOS games, without gambling that I wouldn't be able to find drivers for a generic card - assuming the generic card wasn't supported by Unisound as well - or paying through the nose for a non-Plug and Play Sound Blaster card.) Might be one method to consider to getting a sound card to work in this PC.
Someday I will do a video on this upgrade...
I've got a few legacy Sound Blaster cards kicking around, so I definitely think that is the route I will go. An optical drive for sure, too! I have some multimedia stuff from that era, looking forward to trying it out.
Cool