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I was wondering that...

I think it's time for some new ones There's a project for abug.

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It's like it slightly looses hsync here and there, and the vsync position flicks intermittently. Short/sharp rather than gentle drifting.

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It's more a whole-screen instability with mine. Clearly it's something that's not yielding a nice smooth-whatever (technical analysis by me there )

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Me cub's started going wobbly in the picture department... Am I correct in thinking this is one of those occasions where replacing all the electrolytics might be the simplest course of action? Are there a few other things I should check first?

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But not which models, and I don’t have a Hakko, so no idea. I only drool over JCL, I don’t like the athestics of the Hakko, I can never get over the fact it looks like ‘my first soldering iron’ and is something you give to 10 year olds. I had that with Windows XP... You can get it in silver if you ...

Yup. I find if I've overdone it I can just drag all the excess up to one end and wick it off. Did we mention flux? Flux. Flux flux.

I have no idea if those aoyue tips fit a hakko (I think not), but the tips Charlie and I linked are the same, and for the hakko.

There are two I use are T18-C2 and T18-D24 - it doesn't matter if you get too much solder on, it's easy enough to remove the excess with braid. Key is lots of liquid flux before you hit it with the solder that's stuck to the iron

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More screws on top? Check under the label? I've not done one of these myself so I'm guessing. Also the plastic grommets in the side will i need to come out if there are any.

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System 6522 is the next likely candidate if you don't have any scope/logic probe facility.

I seriously recommend people try a bit of surface mount - it's actually much easier than it looks and it's so much neater!

Nice acquisition! There aren't lead fumes from leaded solder unless you evaporate it at ridiculously high temps. It's just flux fumes and you get those from leaded and unleaded alike. Just don't stick your head over it

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Careful now, let's not waltz into politicalness - that way madness lies! Retrocomputing forum about retrocomputing

I did a bit. You can probably see why I said "no more!"

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No idea as I've never run a level 3, but beebem emulates econet, plus you can emulate the copro.

Use beebem in master mode and your cf disk image as the hard drive image for it, and the install disk image as the disk. Once you've done it write the HDD image back to the cf card.

I guess the smallest pitch I have done is whatever is on the BeebSCSI. Seemed pretty small. They weren't too bad. But I dont find the ICs too hard, it is the weird ones with inaccesible pads and you dont have solder paste to hand that are hard. Those are 0.65. If you're thinking about the sd socket...

If you can do 1.27 you can do 0.65

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I wonder if a revised edition which is a bit less finicky would benefit things. I realise it seems quite tedious in the modern day and age, but I quite enjoyed this as a kid (up to the point I couldn't find the blasted ship!)



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I could never actually find the wreck... It was near impossible so far as I could tell to the extent that I thought the elk version was bugged!

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DFS was never designed to work with a hard disk, let alone the code necessary to address the hardware. ADFS has all the gubbins necessary - a hierarchical filing system really is a must when dealing with something like that. You can have both dfs and ADFS installed in the pegasus or ap3/4. PAGE will...

That's a timely warning. It might be time to give them a check up... Certainly the Amiga is plagued by SMD cap issues, we've no reports in Acorns but that's not to say it won't happen...

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Great

If you don't deal with battery leakage it really won't work, permanently. I'd get it to bits and make sure it's all cleaned up.

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vanpeebles wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:23 am

APDL did a version on CD too, I'm fairly sure that ran on strongarms etc.

Although good luck getting hold of that

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Lovely! Is it a +?

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Therein lies the perpetual gamble

- further, I'd just make a feature of the holes being there and save yourself the hassle. If people want to purchase the part and pay to have it fitted, or fit it themselves then they can take the cost on the chin.

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