I struggled to revive the disk drives on the Franklin Ace 1200
#appleIIclone #franklinace #keytronic
This Franklin 1200 powers up again, but now the keyboard is completely dead and both disk drives are acting up. Let’s fix them!
Part 1:
Part 2: This part!
Part 3: Coming soon
0:00 Intro
0:42 Keyboard repair (foam and foil, Kentronic)
6:04 Repairing two disk drives
42:32 Running some diagnostics on the Franklin Ace 1200
53:38 Outro
--- Video Links
TexElec foam and foil pads for Keytronics keyboards:
Shugart SA-400 (and SA-390) disk drive:
Service
Drol (Game, wikipedia)
Adrian’s Digital Basement Merch store:
Adrian’s Digital Basement ][ (Second Channel)
Support the channel on Patreon:
-- Tools
Deoxit D5:
O-Ring Pick Set: (I use these to lift chips off boards)
Elenco Electronics LP-560 Logic Probe:
Hakko FR301 Desoldering Iron:
Rigol DS1054Z Four Channel Oscilloscope:
Head Worn Magnifying Goggles / Dual Lens Flip-In Head Magnifier:
TL866II Plus Chip Tester and EPROM programmer: (The MiniPro)
TS100 Soldering Iron:
EEVBlog 121GW Multimeter:
DSLogic Basic Logic Analyzer:
Magnetic Screw Holder:
Universal ZIP sockets: (clones, used on my ZIF-64 test machine)
RetroTink 2X Upconverter: (to hook up something like a C64 to HDMI)
Plato (Clone) Side Cutters: (order five)
Heat Sinks:
Little squeezy bottles: (available elsewhere too)
--- Links
My GitHub repository:
Commodore Computer Club / Vancouver, WA – Portland, OR – PDX Commodore Users Group
--- Instructional videos
My video on damage-free chip removal:
--- Music
Intro music and other tracks by:
Nathan Divino
@itsnathandivino
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