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CAD and 3D printing have found many uses, but they can be especially  helpful to the retrocomputing community for tackling annoying, tricky problems. Let's see how a couple of simple parts can get a Macintosh PowerBook 1400's CD-ROM drive looking new again. 

PowerBook 1400 drive bezel bracket models:
Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5176310
PrusaPrinters, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/106933-powerbook-1400-cd-rom-drive-bezel-brackets  

PowerBook 500 battery blank model:
Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5177482
PrusaPrinters, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/107774-macintosh-powerbook-500-series-battery-blank

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Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

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3D Printing to the Rescue: PowerBook 1400 CD-ROM Bezel

CAD and 3D printing have found many uses, but they can be especially helpful to the retrocomputing community for tackling annoying, tricky problems. Let's see how a couple of simple parts can get a Macintosh PowerBook 1400's CD-ROM drive looking new again. PowerBook 1400 drive bezel bracket models: Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5176310 PrusaPrinters, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/106933-powerbook-1400-cd-rom-drive-bezel-brackets PowerBook 500 battery blank model: Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5177482 PrusaPrinters, https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/107774-macintosh-powerbook-500-series-battery-blank ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) and Groovy Kaiju (https://soundcloud.com/groovy-godzilla/metro-extended). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

Comments

Alan Grassia

What a great fix. I enjoy watching these 'homebrew' solutions for fixing retro gear.

Asaf Sagi

I'd be wary of using PLA for this kind of fix. I would go for PETG, which is as strong as ABS but not as complicated to print and doesn't emit toxic gas :)