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Offline EEVblog

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My crusty ebay C5
« on: 10, December, 2013 - 11:05:40 »
Hi
I'm Dave Jones from the EEVblog, you may have seen my Sinclair C5 video on youtube, currently the #1 search result for "sinclair c5":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS6q27VOTOk

That was my friends two C5's, but now I have my own, just acquired on ebay and turned up today.
Paid $250 for it, and these things are pretty rare in Australia it seems.

Didn't know much about it from the ebay photos, and well, it's pretty crusty, basically as bad as I expected it could be.
I'm curious to know from the experienced restorers how much work is involved in salvaging this?
Here are some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/ph.../sets/72157638538856904/

Bare in mind that I've never done anything like this before, and whilst I'm fairly handy, my mechanical skills are pretty limited.
I figure this C5 needs a complete strip down, removal of all rust, repainting, and almost a complete restoration.
The guy I bought it from said the motor and pod display works, but the motor ran backwards, so he swapped the wires and it now runs forward. It has a custom centre-off switch drilled into the side of the case, I'm guess this might be a reverse switch?
Anyway, the wiring does look like it's been modded.

Any comments and help appreciated.

Thanks
Dave.

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Re: My crusty ebay C5
« Reply #1 on: 10, December, 2013 - 17:26:28 »
Hi there Dave you could check out my videos on YOUTUBE type in JORDAN8ISH where you will find my videos on how to strip down and build up a C5 ...Any help just ask Bye Chas

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Re: My crusty ebay C5
« Reply #2 on: 19, January, 2014 - 22:31:35 »
Hi
I'm Dave Jones from the EEVblog, you may have seen my Sinclair C5 video on youtube, currently the #1 search result for "sinclair c5":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS6q27VOTOk

That was my friends two C5's, but now I have my own, just acquired on ebay and turned up today.
Paid $250 for it, and these things are pretty rare in Australia it seems.

Didn't know much about it from the ebay photos, and well, it's pretty crusty, basically as bad as I expected it could be.
I'm curious to know from the experienced restorers how much work is involved in salvaging this?
Here are some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/ph.../sets/72157638538856904/

Bare in mind that I've never done anything like this before, and whilst I'm fairly handy, my mechanical skills are pretty limited.
I figure this C5 needs a complete strip down, removal of all rust, repainting, and almost a complete restoration.
The guy I bought it from said the motor and pod display works, but the motor ran backwards, so he swapped the wires and it now runs forward. It has a custom centre-off switch drilled into the side of the case, I'm guess this might be a reverse switch?
Anyway, the wiring does look like it's been modded.

Any comments and help appreciated.

Thanks
Dave.
Hi Dave,
Great to hear you've got a C5, I often enjoy watching your videos on youtube. 250AUD sounds like a pretty sweet deal, considering that's (as I understand it) about the price of a loaf of bread over there.
Not sure if it could be a reverse switch - I have a feeling the DC motor freewheels. What case is it drilled into the side of? The motor itself?

Btw, the flickr link is broken.