[rescue] SPARCbook replacement plastics

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I have access to both a large-ish (about 12" square build area) and a
very large (18"+  square build area) 3d printer. Would be willing to
help with this (but I don't have any of those systems) on the
3d-printing side.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Connor Krukosky
<connork at connorsdomain.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been a lurker here for awhile, tipped off about the list by Dave
> McGuire a few years ago now.
> Recently I've acquired a few... Well ok maybe quite a few Tadpole laptops
> mostly from the 3 series, a 3, 3GX, and a P1000G.
> These are all projects of their own and I have gone through and taken high
> resolution photos of the guts of each of the systems and gotten board scans
> for almost every board in the system for documentation purposes.
> I'll share these later when I get them all together and hosted somewhere for
> all to see.
>
> But the primary point of this post is to announce that I am working on
> designing and making replacement plastics for (as of now anyway) the 3
> Series chassis.
> So this would include, the following machines/models:
> SPARCbook 3, 3LC, 3XP, 3GX, 3TX, Server, 3000XT, 3000ST
> The P1000, P1300 series Intel based laptops
> RS/6000 N40
> ALPHAbook
>
> Here is a tweet with a short video of me showing the replacement hinge latch
> grips that I made for the SPARCbook 3 I have that was missing one and the
> other broke off...
> https://twitter.com/ConnorKrukosky/status/979393925231403031
> The next piece I am working on is the PCCARD/PCMCIA card door.
> Other pieces I am planing on making:
> Bottom feet, the left middle and right click buttons that always break at
> the back hinge piece!, and the battery cover latch as this seems to break
> as-well causing the bottom door to not stay latched on.
> The I/O cover I will attempt to make but will be difficult due to two
> reasons:
> A) Its a physically long piece, and will likely need to be two pieces, in
> which case may not be a strong enough piece depending on how I conjoin the
> two pieces.
> B) Would have to be different for every different model if you want the I/O
> labels in them like the originals had, of-course I will do what I can for
> the models I have and probably make a blank one for a "universal" part.
> Though I don't think having that back cover is really a super huge concern
> since it probably gets in the way for most people's configurations.
> And well its in the back, you can't see it too much so that's a back-burner
> item.
>
> Another piece I may try to tackle is the SCSI drive enclosure since the
> latch/cover breaks off... At-least it has on two of mine already.
> I don't want to really tear my enclosures apart right now though because my
> drives all work as of now...
> And I am pretty sure tearing it apart will be a pretty destructive process
> to the enclosure and I want these machines running for the time being so I
> can image the internal drives and such.
>
> Oh and for how you can get these as I make them, I will be putting the
> models up for free to grab so you can print them yourselves if you have a 3D
> printer.
> And if not I will likely be making some and selling them for a small
> amount+shipping.
> I don't know exactly what I will price things like or what demand might be,
> but it takes some effort to print these nicely on my printer (have to baby
> sit some of the prints and get a fan cooling the print part of the way
> through, etc.)
> So I guess please let me know if your interested in any pieces or parts and
> what parts those may be! If "all of the above" that's enough of an answer
> too :)
>
> Anyway, I hope this is of some happy news to folks who may have these
> laptops and definitely probably have broken plastics.
>
>
> -Connor K
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