Finally finished my long awaited build. An IBM Battleship Model F122 from 1986. It was by far the most demanding board I've ever worked on. Closing the assembly was as much a nightmare as I was told and took about 2 hours of clamping with 6 heavy duty 2" wood clamps, hammering and then more clamping and hammering, and resulted in two badly bruised thumbs and a terrible headache.
As for what was done to the board:
Attached are some of the photos of the whole process. The keyboard feels and looks like new, is fully reprogrammable and works lovely. The amount of work it took was quite susubstantial but I'm extremely happy with the result.
Just finished setting up my first ever pond and I'm really happy with it. It's a 150L plastic form with a bunch of rocks and some slate to cover it up nicely. A tiny little 4w pump sits at the bottom and pumps the water through my diy work in progress bog filter and finally flows back in the form of a little waterfall.
In the pond I've planted some plants and duckweed from the marshes and creeks around my house. As far as wildlife goes, there is some tadpoles, one water stick insect, a bunch of water snails and a couple random bugs/larvae.
I'm really happy with how it turns out.