"Market" for old macs?

[Jeff Davis]

On Mon, December 5, 2005 2:51 pm, Scott Stevens wrote:
> It's VERY important to be careful inside the Mac once the cover is
> off.  It's extremely easy to snap the glass nipple on the CRT and
> ruin it.  Apple in their infinite wisdom put a circuit board on
> the back of the neck to act as a 'torque amplifier' for this
> purpose.  Just bumping the board wrong can let all the 'magic
> vacuum' out of your CRT.

I have the Larry Pina mac repair books and that's one of first things to do -
after popping the back case, remove the little board from the back of the crt
so you don't jostle it by accident.

Jeff