Amiga 500 Plus Surgery
 

Here are some pictures of my new Amiga 500 Plus undergoing battery removal surgery. I am pleased to say the operation was a success and the Amiga is now safe from evil battery leakage :cool

Great looking pictures Reptile..... If I could see any ;)

EDIT: Ahh! I see, you're doing a double post

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The Amiga before undergoing surgery

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No signs so far

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OK, here goes nothing... Fingers crossed! :scream

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Thankfully there are no signs of severe leakage. :great

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Upon closer inspection, there are signs of early leakage, so better to be safe than sorry, I proceed to remove the battery

I removed it by simply moving the battery lengthways gently, back and forth, until it was removed from the PCB. This only took a few minutes, then I cleaned what little traces were remaining from the board using a drip of vinegar and a cotton bud.

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The board is now nice and clean, after reseating a few capacitors and checking all the chips are secure I start putting her back together.

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The operation was a success and my Amiga is now up and running again, and I can relax [until my memory upgrade arrives..!]! :spin

Nice!

My isn't technology great! - Seeing the lightweight LCD on top of the A500 brings back memories of my CRT monitor slowly crushing the life out of my poor A500!

I see a furry mess on the end of that battery just peeping out - good work it looks like you caught it just in time.
To be honest people should be whipping out original NiCads even if they're not leaking - they will go for sure!

Yes I'm glad there was no serious leakage, my heart was certainly pumping when I was removing the heat shield!

12 years after I last owned a classic Amiga and 15 years or so after I departed with my A500+, and I can still tell from a glance exactly which chips are where in the "overview" picture of the motherboard without peeking at the labels... Clearly my A500+ spent far too much time bare naked...

Pervert! ;)

My A500 had one memory chip socketted so I could use it as a tester for memory chips.

I've noticed my setup is corrupting my disks, the speaker of the TV Monitor being too close to the disk drives :-( So I will have to do some adjusting, I've ordered a stand which will increase the distance and place a barrier.