I purchased this from Ebay as spares repairs expecting it to rattle alot and probably to be completely unresponsive and unrepairable but it was very cheap so worth a go. I was expecting it to be delivered by courier but it was graciously deliveryed by hand from 100 miles away!.
Something tells me it is from a QL user group 🙂
Before turning it on I thought I would just do a teardown and a cleanup just to make sure there are no creatures nesting inside and no obvious signs of failure such as burn marks and the like.
There were no rattles so time to gingerly give it a turn on. And…we have power
Unfortunately my QL is currently in pieces receiving a minerva rom so I need to find another computer to connect to it. The connection on the back is a 6 pin don TTL input.
This matches a BBC TTL lead and a Sinclair QL obvs!.
Luckily I have a BBC with such a lead. So I plugged it in and…success!!!. It works and without any repair.
No to sort the missing flap. I decided to knock up a 3D design to print. Just a small piece which will allow matching the profile and test the hinge. I had red in my 3D printer so just left it in. The profile matches quite well and the hinge seems to hold. I spent some time experimenting to get the full width just right and the tabs to hold the flap in but got there after a couple of attemps.
The final result is a bit too shiny but it doesn’t look to bad. I may just sand the shinyness off.
Oh and by this time my QL was sporting a custom built minerva rom with QUBIDE drive. Matches up quite well
