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the oily spots are crc to help get the screws out which i did and they have been cleaned from dish washer.. so letting dry and will look at tracks in a few days..

hmmm maybe .. more to come later...

ok so a small update.. i managed to get a copy of the bondwell-16 install disks from the USA.. was $29.00 nz and ebay wanted $80 nz for postage.. but have done it through NZPost YouShop..

on another area, the bondwell-14 case is not in very good condition and im thinkig of painting it as close as i could get the original colour..

the bondwell-16 case is very yellow so still wondering ... may paint it as well...

i now need to get some replacement screws etc to replace the rusted ones..

the case sides

case top bw-14

and the yellow bondwell-16 case

so some good news on the bondwell-14 keyboard .. the tracks look ok.. after a good clean and wipe down with IPA..

2nd half of keyboard

and the top looks ok for now..

the other end of keyboard

Looks like you are getting there

yes im going to do a strip dowm and re-build on both the 14 and 16.. the guy selling the BW-14 on trademe is a tool.. wants 700 for it but wont make a set of disks for a fellow retro restorer..

I have a Bondwell 16 in storage, awaiting restoration, so I'm following this thread with interest.

Mine came with a couple of boxes of diskettes but I don't know whether anything can be recovered from them. They look in a pretty bad state. And I don't actually have a working 5.25" drive at present.

ZL2AOX wrote:I have a Bondwell 16 in storage, awaiting restoration, so I'm following this thread with interest.

Mine came with a couple of boxes of diskettes but I don't know whether anything can be recovered from them. They look in a pretty bad state. And I don't actually have a working 5.25" drive at present.

Disks in poor visual condition can be washed to remove fungi and loose media. Amazingly this often results in 100% recovery, and the disk can be used successfully, if put in a new, non-mouldy jacket.

Are Bondwell 16 disks (they are CP/M 3.0 disks, yes?) archived on the Internet anywhere? If not, and you are prepared to wash them, I'm happy to make IMD images of them for posterity.

PM me if interested.

if you cant i have a set comming via youpost for the 16 so can make a copy of those.. i got the fdd working after replacing the caps and cleaning the board of corosion from dud caps..

now i got to find me some new screws and bolts as most of the 14 ones are rusted..