That's a nice one. Commodore stuff often seems to command a pretty penny these days.JPB wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:18 pmLooks and works like a new one, photos taken in July 2011 and it's still in occasional use:
And the box is still with it, though being a protective thing for the calculator, it's taken some abuse:
Rich, anyone (especially Zel, by the looks of everything else in this thread ) can restore anything if they have the time and pain-free hands with fingers that all work.
Parts are unlikely to be available except by buying an additional specimen to harvest said parts from, but there's always the possibility of reproducing case sections by the sorcery that is 3D printing.
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So, have I fixed the issue with the Jag's wipers? Nope...Worked perfectly until I turned the wipers off for the first time, then refused to start again until I thumped it again.
Fine. We'll pull the wiper motor apart, clean and generally service it then. My money is on it just being a dirty or sticky switch/brush. Given that the wipers work absolutely perfectly once they're started without any juddering or lack of torque I reckon it's a simple dodgy contact.
The plus side is that with the removal of four bolts (well, three in my case as one is sheared), removal of one plug and pulling off the washer feed tube the whole assembly just lifts off the car. So I've brought it into the house so I can work on it tomorrow inside when it's forecast to be tipping it down all day.
Parts manual is already coming in handy with a nice diagram showing what to expect when I start stripping it down.
Hopefully shouldn't be a major headache to sort. At least it will give me the opportunity to *properly* clean up and regrease things rather than the slap-dash job I did yesterday.
The calculator thing has definitely snowballed again. This little bundle was bought a few days ago and is on the way.
This was mainly for the Sharp one as it's a style I've not seen before. Though the TI-1250 is a nice addition as I've already for a TI-1200 (same thing but sans memory functions), and the Casio LC-828 will be a nice companion for my really battered LC-826.
In addition I also just bought this off eBay.
That will be the first one in the collection to use a neon display which will be a nice box to get ticked off.
We do have a fault with the display whereby the top segment in all the digits is missing...Hoping this will just be a duff transistor (given the display will almost certainly be multiplexed that would make sense to me). Based on a little research I believe that this is a Kovac K-80D, dating from 1972 it looks like. Should be an interesting little addition to the collection - and actually a bit nice to have a fault to hunt down. Probably the only reason it went for less than £15, anything with a more exotic display than a VFD tends do be quite pricey.