RECONDITIONING-C64 | ||||||
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![]() 20200414_152736.jpg Mostly taken apart. Keyboard has been separated from top half of shell. |
![]() 20200414_152811.jpg Eww! |
![]() 20200414_152817.jpg Yuck! 40 years of cat hair and dust. |
![]() 20200414_153028.jpg Wash your hands, kids. | |||
![]() 20200414_153136.jpg Popping the keys off by levering them with a screwdriver. |
![]() 20200414_153142.jpg One of these days I'll get a keycap puller. |
![]() 20200414_153200.jpg It's just. That. Easy. |
![]() 20200414_153516.jpg That spring's not in great shape. | |||
![]() 20200414_153717.jpg Keyboards do not get clean with compressed air alone. |
![]() 20200414_154435.jpg A spiderweb inside the spacebar. Just great. |
![]() 20200414_163537.jpg Tools of the trade: Compressed air, vinegar, a spray bottle, and laboratory-grade isopropyl alcohol. |
![]() 20200414_163742.jpg Springs soaking in vinegar to get the rust off. | |||
![]() 20200414_163837.jpg Space bar's spring (which is slightly different than the rest) and screws in their own vial of vinegar. |
![]() 20200414_164503.jpg Remember what I said about compressed air not being enough? |
![]() 20200414_171730.jpg Keys washed off with hand soap and a toothbrush. |
![]() 20200414_172548.jpg Extracted mainboard, sans RF shield and lower half of shell. | |||
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![]() 20200414_180502.jpg Partially separated from the lower RF shield. The sheet of cardboard keeps the underside of the mainboard from shorting on the aluminum RF shield. |
![]() 20200414_180516.jpg There it is, folks - the MOS 6581 SID chip. |
![]() 20200414_180522.jpg The MOS 8701 there is the clock generator chip. The larger chip below it with heat sink grease is the VIC-II graphics chip. | |||
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