Changing caps and updating the hardware
It took some time but finally in autumn 2020 I got time to change the caps for the Amiga. I had ordered a capacitor kit from amigastore.eu a year earlier and in addition to that I also got then newly released AmigaOS 3.1.4. I removed the old caps using two solder stations. I heated the capacitors' legs and my son took the caps out with tweezers. There was luckily no signs of any leakage so I could just clean the board with ipa and solder the new caps in place. After testing that the machine booted ok I also changed the roms to the 3.1.4. I had started to think about upgrading my Amiga a bit more so I had also made couple new part orders, including EIDE'99, 68882 FPU for the Blizzard 1230-IV, laser upgrade for the mouse and new power connector from Amigastore.eu. In addition to those I got also SilverStone SST-ST30F 300W SFX PSU from Amazon and a Gotek drive from eBay. I wanted to make a new adapter to ATX->Amiga and used an ATX extension cable from eBay to build one. Once f...