Reviving this old thread once again...
Back in May, I replaced the lid cover on my 13" 250mhz WS, as the adhesive of the metal plate had dry-rotted and the plate fell off (had never heard of that happening or experienced that before). I lost the logo, so I went in for a replacement cover instead, and a generous Redditor sent me an entire 12" passive matrix display. The 12" cover fits on the 13" display (but NOT the 14", for future reference), so this completed that machine once again.
Fast-forward to this week- I purchased a "for parts only" 233mhz Wallstreet PDQ from eBay for $60. It arrived yesterday, and is in, what I would call, very good condition with just a few scratches here and there, and dirty, dirty dirty. As it was complete, I decided to give it a once-over to see if it could be fixed. I pulled the 2gb drive out of it and installed a 100gb drive that was once in my Mini G4 running OS 9.2.2, replaced the paltry 32mb with 256mb of RAM, and it booted right up. The keyboard wasn't fastened down, and playing with the clips, I discovered that someone had pulled them so far back that they became dislodged from their track. I opened it up, pulled off the top case, and was able to fix the right-side clip. On the left side, the top case is missing a very small piece of plastic; sort of an angular ramp; where the spring lifts up, allowing the clip to snap forwards, so I have to carefully and manually clip and unclip this side to avoid dislodging the clip again. Other than that, there were no other issues. The screen is the brightest screen I've ever seen on a WS or PDQ, and the battery holds a full charge. I have another fully-working battery from my 250mhz WS, and the PDQ reports 6:30 of battery time on full charge. Pretty cool. All in all, this is a great looking and performing machine. I have a spare 266mhz card that I'll be dropping into it, and am considering calling on the services of our friend
@dosdude1 once again for a G4 upgrade.
Pictures tonight, when I get home from work.