FOUND wtb: octane front plane

[ivelegacy]

hi guys
dead front plane, so i am looking for

• SILICON GRAPHICS SGI 030-0891-003 OCTANE FP1 FRONT PLANE BOARD XBOW v1.4

edit:
found!

[ivelegacy]

I wonder about repairing

yesterday I was asked 200 USD for just the front plane + shipping X___X
and I was shocked X_____X

[surrealdeal]

yesterday i was asked for 200 USD for just the front plane + shipping X___X
when i can pick up a whole IP30 (full machine, so front-plane + CPU + power supply + disks + V6 + plastic case + metal case) from ebay at the same price

i was shocked X_____X

Really, where? I almost never see prices like that for anything.

[ivelegacy]

ebay, USA, for example

[surrealdeal]

I guess by the time I check it, all of that stuff is gone. I was about to buy a vpro card a while back, but by the time I loaded a prepaid debit card someone bought it within a few hours of it being listed. Same thing with a nice 300 dollar fuel.

[mopar5150]

$200-250 for a complete Octane2 is not rare on ebay but they do sell fast. The big cost on them is the shipping. I have sold several of these systems and people can't understand that sending a 75 pound computer with proper packaging is expensive.

[ivelegacy]

oh well, I need just the FP1

[ivelegacy]

@surrealdeal

here it is, on ebay dot com


see by yourself if you do not trust me




SILICON GRAPHICS SGI 030-0891-003 OCTANE FP1 FRONT PLANE BOARD XBOW 1.4
Price:US $250.00 Buy It Now
Shipping: $44.53 International Priority Shipping to Italy via the Global Shipping Program


that's insane, 250 USD just for the front plane X________________X

[mopar5150]

I guess by the time I check it, all of that stuff is gone. I was about to buy a vpro card a while back, but by the time I loaded a prepaid debit card someone bought it within a few hours of it being listed. Same thing with a nice 300 dollar fuel.

If something is a good deal on ebay you need to jump on it. I think I was looking at the same Fuel you are talking about, but I hesitated and it was gone.

[mopar5150]

@surrealdeal and ivelegacy I don't like to take apart complete Octanes but if between you two it all goes to good homes I will part one. It would help if everybody put your location in your profile so I can get an idea of how much of a system to offer.

I have offered big parts for free in response to a post only to find out the member is 5000 miles away.

Heck, if hamei was closer I would have already sent him 200 pounds of crap.

[ivelegacy]

@mopar5150
i live in italy, and i am a working student
actually i am working in Bologna, which is 250Km from where i live (Milano)
these two cites are both sited in the North part of Italy

[TeamBlackFox]

Yeah ivelegacy we don't have many Italians on here, so if you're going to find a cheaper frontplane you will pay for the cost in shipping. I sold a chassis on eBay of an Octane 2 for $100, it sold within a day, but because it was the entire chassis, shipping to the EU would have been over $100 USD. You simply pay for the math somewhere along the line.

[ivelegacy]

four pins missing, completely missing, and I wonder if it can be repaired

[guardian452]

If you can desolder the stubs of the old pins and push them out of the plastic you could stuff new ones through the connector body and resolder them