[Coco] Heat management 101

[Rick Taylor]

I'm debating how I'm going to patch those holes :-)

I'm thinking plastic filler like they use for model building, and then
paint the case back to white. My goal is to bring it back to as close
as factory as possible.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Bruce W. Calkins
<brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rogelio Perea"
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>> Was doing my daily Ebay stroll and came up to this:
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>> http://tinyurl.com/5ts8rls
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>> How bad could it be inside that CoCo to have the case "modded"
>> like so for ventilation? That is an avant-garde vents job.
>>
>> -- RP
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> The early "F" board CoCo 1s had a timing issue that was initially thought to
> be heat related.  Although my thinking is that the white ones were the last
> run of the CoCo 1 and that problem should have been addressed.
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> Those vent holes are over the transformer and power supply chips, so they
> would vent the worst of the heat, not that a CoCo had much to vent though.
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> Bruce W.
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