exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

I am not an expert regarding floppies, so I have absolutely no problem believing you :mrgreen:

After soaking over night and a run in the dishwasher, the case is looking much better already:
Now some retrobright on and see if we can catch a little sunlight today...

Goodluck with the sun, if ot worked with rain, then today would be the perfect day here.

Yeah, so much for that plan ... :foldarms:

You could always buy a uv lamp?

Yes, I have a one. So no big deal, I just didn't expect the thunderstorm, since it was so sunny in the morning ;)

24h hours of strong artificial sunlight later, the case came out improved but very spotty:
So will have to redo it or maybe simply paint it...

But the keyboard turned out very well:
In the meanwhile I modded the powersupply based on Exxos' instructions here https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/last/ ... x.htm#SR98. The results are pretty identical, so I think I am going with this one for the time being.
I reassembled the keyboard, cleaned the floppy and the system is running fine:

Now that I know that all parts are working, I can start harvesting the parts... Almost a pitty, but they will be reborn in something greater :)

As noted in a different thread (I think it was a Mega 4 one) this is the paint to use to renovate the case: Available for all good DIY places apparently.

Okay, in the meantime I robbed hopefully everything off the donor board, what I need:
The board did arrive yesterday, and I really like it. Almost a pitty I have to solder things to it :)
After that I went through my stocks and ordered a lot of parts on Mouser. Hopefully next weekend I can start soldering.

And the tidy bench of the year award goes to.... :lol: