A1200 ebay restoration

[StuKeith]

So I won this A1200 and bits on ebay. went to collect them. I only wanted the monitor and was planing on selling the 1200.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN:IT&ih=019


Didnt look to yellow in the pic. ~Upon getting it all home and looking at it, I relized how disgusting it was! the miggy was yellow and sticky, and smelt awfull. The mouse was not nice to touch and sticky too.




Trust me it was worse then that. like the mouse cable

So today I started the restore.

first off was to take it apart. this was a nice surprise.



3.5" HDD installed. with all the wireing. stripped all of this out and removed the mobo.

Gave the case a scrub with a scourer and some oxi clean/fairy and it didnt come up too bad.



Next up was the keyboard.

stripped this down to the bone.



Stuck the keys into the dishwasher and once done and dry put the kb back together.



So this done started on the case. this is what it looks like after a few coats of undercoat.



Now just need to paint and lacqure the top and sort the bottom out. then get a 2.5" cable and fit the 2.5" drive from an old knackered laptop and install.

Got plenty of pics and stuff and will do a guide once finished!