Logic Board Recapping & Repair – 68K Mac

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We are now offering Logic Board recapping and REPAIR services for your Vintage Mac! The best time to do this is now, while your Mac is still working!

Please keep in mind that all boards are different and the condition and scope of the damage will vary. Honestly at this point, most of the boards we see need additional repairs in addition to recapping. If your caps are leaking, it is likely too late for just a recapping job to fix it.

Repair estimate – An initial non-refundable $75 diagnostic fee is charged to determine the extent of the repairs needed and provide an accurate estimate for repairs.  Once you approve the estimate, the $75 diagnostic fee will be credited towards the total repair cost. If your capacitors have already started leaking, you should expect that your board also needs additional repairs. Contact us prior to purchasing anything to verify that we can fix your model (we need to have a working one in stock for comparison and testing purposes). 

Logic board restoration includes repair, ultrasonic cleaning, and new capacitors. This starts at $250 and will always cost less than the restored boards we offer for sale

Troubleshooting, trace repair, chip lifting/replacement, meticulous cleaning of the chip legs, and anything else beyond recapping will be estimated at the $75 per hour shop labor rate. This is also the rate for these same services performed on a board that was recapped elsewhere – note that we may recap it anyway at our discretion if we feel that may be part of the issue (we have even seen some with new caps put on backwards). Even with an estimate, some issues will not be known until other ones are fixed. Your approval will be needed before any repairs are performed. It can take quite a bit of real time for the Complete Restoration of your board to bring it back to like new once we are we are finished. 

Occasionally we do see a logic board that truly just needs recapping and ultrasonic cleaning. This service starts at $150

All boards are thoroughly tested for all functionality before they are returned to you and come with a 6 month warranty, which only covers the work that we performed. 

Mail in customers – you pay the shipping to get the item(s) to us. They MUST be packaged well so they don’t arrive with additional damage. Return shipping will be added to your final invoice. If we don’t have your model of computer in stock, it may be necessary for you to ship your entire computer to us to ensure that we can test that your board is in good working condition before we ship it back to you. ***In our experience, Compact Macs are best shipped on their side with the screen facing the side rather than the crt facing up.

Please note: If sending the whole computer, there will be an additional $50 minimum (some models will be more) labor for careful disassembly/reassembly, and repeat testing that will be added to your final invoice along with shipping. Plastics are brittle in many models so we cannot guarantee there will be no case/clip breakage, but we take utmost care to prevent what we can. 

We also offer many more repair services – details are here.