Cleaning out the insides of my family's old LC575 (with pictures!)

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Cleaning out the insides of my family's old LC575 (with pictures!)

I've been trying to bring my family's old LC575 back to life as my first retrocomputing project. Playing games on this thing are some of my first memories. Here's a blog post about cleaning the wasp nests out of the power supply (with lots of photos of the internals): Restoring my Childhood Family Computer: Part 2

The current status of the restoration is that the motherboad seems to be damaged beyond my ability to repair due to a battery leak (there's more info in Part 1) and I've ordered a replacement. I've attempted to power it on (with and without the damaged motherboard) and the CRT sounds like how I expect a CRT to sound, though there's nothing on the screen and also I don't feel a static charge on the screen. Hopefully that means that the power supply and CRT are fine and it's just a matter of the motherboard being damaged.