Restoring a Macintosh PowerBook 145B

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• MI

  @MikeDeGuia_Mk-II · 5 years ago

  That tip with the soldering iron and stand-offs is ingenious

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• DR

  @dreammfyre · 5 years ago

  “For various reasons I’m not a fan of retrobrite”<br><br>You have to expand on that some time.

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• MC

  @MCOfan · 1 year ago

  Colin Howzitgoin knows how to work a spudger!

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• MI

  @MichaelAStanhope · 5 years ago

  The worst problem these days with the passive matrix screens is that the capacitors in the LCD panel fail and cause the ghosting issues and overall bad quality. If you replace those, these screens come back alive once again usually. The 145 wasn&apos;t a bad machine, it was leaps better than the 150 was in terms of a budget, lower end Powerbook!

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• MI

  @MightyJabbasCollection · 5 years ago

  Pretty sure that&apos;s my personal PowerBook 180 at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRScacZP2G4&amp;t=75">1:15</a>. He&apos;s famous! :D

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• MI

  @MiguelAPerez · 5 years ago

  Don&apos;t know why, but your videos always get me in chill mode. I love the way you explain everything &nbsp;and the scenes you prepare. Thank you for such hard work!

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• VW

  @vwestlife · 5 years ago

  Thank goodness it&apos;s not a PowerBook 190.

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• AP

  @appleontheapex · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRScacZP2G4&amp;t=370">6:10</a> Heating up the threaded inserts is a genius idea. That trick is going to save me so much time on future repairs!

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• EK

  @ekeleze · 5 years ago

  I guess you could say the original battery peed itself.

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• CO

  @ConnerBurns · 5 years ago

  Colin, your videos are so we&apos;ll produced and always look so darn good! Thanks for another look at a laptop otherwise forgotten.

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• MR

  @mruppel2 · 5 years ago

  Your video intro is really catchy, I love it

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• KO

  @KopylovAnton · 3 years ago (edited)

  Pleasure to watch how snappy you restoring these vintage tech, very impressive! Also background history and retrospectives on the units/models you&apos;re working on, making it the most interesting. Thank you!

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