Firefly eBay find

[Megatouchmike]

Found a unicorn on eBay. 3 unicorns rather

3 fireflys as-is.  All came with wiped hard drives. Some scratched touchscreens. Monitor mounts broken. Possibly a bad touchscreen controller. Maybe a bad battery or 2.

Me and Mahkeymike are taking a stab at repairing these bad boys

Will post progress pics as we go. 1 is already looking promising

Get hyped

[Megatouchmike]

Pic of lot. Imaging hard drive with system rescue CD on thumb drive

[Megatouchmike]

One up and running! This was the easiest fix. Onto the really broken ones ..

[mahkeymike]

Its a shame how people damage these machines not knowing how to take them apart to do a simple repair like a new cmos battery or a hard drive. From what you said about the hard drives being wiped as a standard procedure for companies to do before reselling, its possible they are the ones that probably busted the monitor mounts.

[mahkeymike]

Want to thank Mike for the early B-day present!
So heres where i am at so far.....
All the mounting posts for the monitor/TS were completely busted off. Luckily the Bezel is made out of ABS plastic. This makes chemical welding easily possible with just a sheet of ABS plastic, Q-tips, Acetone, and a whole lot of patience and precautions (acetone will melt a Firefly) lol.

[mahkeymike]

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[Megatouchmike]

Next step is getting ion 2014 running on these

[mahkeymike]

Next step is getting ion 2014 running on these

Working on it.

[Megatouchmike]

boom

[mahkeymike]

goes the dynamite....