I bought a Mac

Funny timing, I also bought a Mac today - an SE/30. Looking forward to fixing it up.

You'll need a case cracker and a tool specifically to de-energise the CRT: that's the killer part.

Congrats. Recap first - they're probably already shot. Once it's in working order, they're great little workhorses. In undergraduate, the local Mac fileserver was a very hardworking SE/30. I managed to loot its entire contents before they decommissioned it.

A long flat nose screwdriver is actually recommended in Apple's manuals. Just... don't touch the metal part, and maybe consider wearing some insulating gloves.

Nice. Among the things other folks have mentioned, you'll probably want to figure out a different cooling fan. My recollection is that the stock fan is annoyingly loud.

Oh hey, I figured I would take a look on thingiverse for a solution, and I found this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4666475

Yeah, I’ve done it once already, hopefully this time I can do it a little cleaner.

Nice, any goodies you remember from that hoard?

Ooh this looks great

Yeah it’s good general advice to always discharge the CRT. Although… the flyback transformer on most of these Macs has a bleeder resistor, so I skip it when I’m lazy now.

Quite a bit. I posted them to the gopher server (appropriate, as it was accessible via Gopher and AFP):

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu