Little tip for the keycaps (in general).. throw them into a cloth shopping bag, tie a knot into it or ziptie it closed and throw it into the washing machine at 30°C with a bit of detergent as usual, ideally with with a regular clothes wash so it's not as wasteful. After cleaning a fullsize PC keyboard worth of keycaps manually twice, I looked for other (lazier :P) ways and came up with this. I now do this once every ~6 months for my main desktop keyboard and have done it countless times with different types of old keycaps and never had issues. Plus they smell nice :D
I've got a spare LCD. I'll test both once I've got mine working, and maybe one will be better than your current LCD if it's a degradation issue of some kind and I can send it to you by way of thank you for all the hard work you've put in :)
It is clearly some form of LCD degredation, it is even visible when the machine is turned off. Sending one to me is a very generous offer that I'd happily accept. You can contact me through my website: thomwijtenburg.nl/contact-me/
Thank you! Yes, it does! You don't need any batteries installed whatsoever. In fact, if you check out the other videos in this series you'll see that the PSU board works just fine completely independant of the rest of the machine.
Hey i've got one of these, too bad its completely dead.i dont have high hopes for mine, ive opened the port on the side and can already see lots of corrosian
I haven't tried opening these specific ones yet. Mostly because of my experience with similar packs used in the T1000LE that are a right pain in the backside to open. They're either sonically welded or glued together so opening them in a wat that they're reusable is a very tedious and slow process. I mostly run these old machines off AC mains anyway.
Ambition and persistence pay off, giving up is not an option, great result
Fantastic, man! Looks far better and actually boots up. This video series is a gold mine of information for these T1600 machines, magnificent job!
Glad to help.
I got another one of these recently and I will make a, slightly less in-depth, video on that as well
Little tip for the keycaps (in general).. throw them into a cloth shopping bag, tie a knot into it or ziptie it closed and throw it into the washing machine at 30°C with a bit of detergent as usual, ideally with with a regular clothes wash so it's not as wasteful. After cleaning a fullsize PC keyboard worth of keycaps manually twice, I looked for other (lazier :P) ways and came up with this. I now do this once every ~6 months for my main desktop keyboard and have done it countless times with different types of old keycaps and never had issues. Plus they smell nice :D
Great tip, thanks!
I've got a spare LCD. I'll test both once I've got mine working, and maybe one will be better than your current LCD if it's a degradation issue of some kind and I can send it to you by way of thank you for all the hard work you've put in :)
It is clearly some form of LCD degredation, it is even visible when the machine is turned off.
Sending one to me is a very generous offer that I'd happily accept. You can contact me through my website: thomwijtenburg.nl/contact-me/
Good work man! Does this computer power up on DC power input only without having the batteries installed?
Thank you!
Yes, it does! You don't need any batteries installed whatsoever. In fact, if you check out the other videos in this series you'll see that the PSU board works just fine completely independant of the rest of the machine.
Hey i've got one of these, too bad its completely dead.i dont have high hopes for mine, ive opened the port on the side and can already see lots of corrosian
Have you managed to open the battery pack ?
I haven't tried opening these specific ones yet. Mostly because of my experience with similar packs used in the T1000LE that are a right pain in the backside to open.
They're either sonically welded or glued together so opening them in a wat that they're reusable is a very tedious and slow process.
I mostly run these old machines off AC mains anyway.