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Technically, those screws are cleaned up. In reality, they're a bit worse for wear after a bath in vinegar.

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Upper half almost back together. The power LED in the top right wasn't back in.

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Part of a keyboard spring that broke off.

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Knolling the replacement capacitors before installation.

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Power smoothing caps before replacement.

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New power smoothing caps. Moving on to the rest of the board.

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Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

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The underside of the RF modulator. Lots of surface mount components made it tricky to find the through-hole solder points.

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Top side of the RF modulator. Not many components up here, but there wasn't a whole lot of room to maneuver in there.

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Time to reassemble.

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Let's get that mainboard screwed down.

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Let's get that mainboard unscrewed because it also holds the RF shield in place. Oops.

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While we're at it, let's replace the heatsink grease.

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To save money, Commodore used the RF shield as the heat sink for some of the chips.

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Did it right this time.

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Plugging the upper half into the lower half.

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I thought I cleaned up the shell. I was wrong.

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Building a replacement power supply.