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What kind of tech do you maintain?

Most people quickly give up trying to fix these and use a modern SRAM based solution instead. So if you do decide to continue, I wish you the best of luck. I will help where I can, Mark Thanks Mark. I have a ZXpand so am ok for extra RAM it just would have been nice to have a working Sinclair RAM p...

I will check thanks Mark.

If the caps are ok what would cause the voltage not to be there?

I recently got a working RAM pack with a zeddy and while recapping it spotted the following:- 8BFC1256-E9F2-42F3-89E2-137F6939E41E.jpeg How was it even working? So many dry joints. I resoldered the joints and replaced the caps. All good. Ran it for about 30 mins and now it is dead. I have very littl...

Silver microdrives? VERY cool.

Very nice. Very excited!

Wow. That is quite cheap! Not counting postage from USA to UK I paid twice that for mine.

Crayon21 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:48 pm

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:02 pm

Crayon21 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:47 pm

I was too late, damn it!

I have another one on a popular auction website.

link please

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Issue-One-16 ... 3685846225

Always happy to accept lower offers from forum members.

Turns out the USB stick in the gotek was dodgy! Must have bumped it at some point and the connector was lose. Replaced and all good.

Still curious about the recap though.

Crayon21 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:47 pm

I was too late, damn it!

I have another one on a popular auction website.