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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
What about refurbishing C64s?
Recently I acquired quite a stack of C64s in various conditions. Some work, but have a lot of yellowing, others work but lakc a SID chip or have broken ports and some don't even boot but do have an almost perfect housing.
I'm considering to refurbish those: take all the good parts and build a nice looking and working C64.
Anyone here done that before?
Any thoughts on the fact that the 'authenticity' of a refurbished machine is gone? |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
I have a blue c128, which was so badly yellowed I painted it.
Ive got some Krylon Fusion now though, so I might restore it back to off-white :)
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Quote: I have a blue c128, which was so badly yellowed I painted it.
Ive got some Krylon Fusion now though, so I might restore it back to off-white :)
That would be 'Dover White' in Krylon terms ;-)
I'd go for 'Flat Black', if I'd spray the case.
Nice idea to take a breadbox model and put a white keyboard in then: fake C16 :-) |
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null
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Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 645 |
Quote: That would be 'Dover White' in Krylon terms ;-)
I'd go for 'Flat Black', if I'd spray the case.
Nice idea to take a breadbox model and put a white keyboard in then: fake C16 :-)
well... you'd have to paint all the keys grey too... c16 has grey keys afaik...
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Quote: well... you'd have to paint all the keys grey too... c16 has grey keys afaik...
Pfff... mere details... ;) |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
Quote: That would be 'Dover White' in Krylon terms ;-)
I'd go for 'Flat Black', if I'd spray the case.
Nice idea to take a breadbox model and put a white keyboard in then: fake C16 :-)
Dover white, yes - I got 6 cans of it. |
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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 716 |
does anyone know of anything in the uk that works well with old keyboards especially if they have yellowed with age aswell?? |
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 434 |
As mentioned earlier - hydrogenperoxide (40%) or paint the darn thing with a can of Sherona Red you found in your cellar. For repairing cracks and so on, I use a solvent I got from Jerry. It's highly unpleasant and cancerogene and stuff, but darn, it really melts together that plastic in a neat way. You can actually not spot where the cracks or breaks ever were located if you do it in a nice way. |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
Or you can skip the cancer thing and simply live with the state it is in. |
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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 716 |
so hydrogen peroxide doesnt take of the writing on the keys then??
cool i take the keys to work as we use hydrogen peroxide :) |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
You better test it first! Eventhough the chars survived in some cases, it doesn't mean they always will. The stuff the print is made up of, might have been changed during different production runs and thus might react differently.
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