Hey everyone. This thread will be dedicated to restoration of an Amiga 1000 that I have rescued from a leaky barn. Some of you may have already seen my post in the software section about my troubles getting it to boot to Workbench, but I have since managed to get that far, so I will continue the updates here of the project.Here is the Amiga 1000 as it was after pulled out of the barn. Notice the boing ball logo instead of the Amiga check.Under the memory expansion cover is a module that is not identified and pretty rusty looking.The disk that was in the drive. It seems to indicate a boot disk of some sort, but would it be the kickstart disk or the workbench disk?Testing the Amiga without disk to see if it will even power on. To my excitement it does power on and am greeted with the insert kickstart disk screen.Starting up with the disk in drive, I see this. Somewhat odd boot screen, it says Kickstart + Workbench 1.2.After a few seconds, I get halted at this screen. Uh oh, there is a problem with the boot disk, the drive, or it is looking for possibly an external drive containing a file that isn't available. I will have to find another kick start and workbench disk to try that.Meanwhile, lets take a look at the keyboard that was with it. It also has the boing ball logo on it. It is so dirty... ick.The inside actually looks worse than the outside, believe it or not...I desoldered all of the switches to remove the PCB for cleaning. All of the switches need cleaning and work since they are either frozen or don't activate properly.One of the very bad switches from around the middle of the keyboard.Inside the switch. Notice the small piece of spring sitting in the bottom that has rusted off. These switches are going to be a large task to repair.Returning to the barn, I found a lot of disks. Among them I found these that may help me to get the Amiga to boot. Half of them seem to work, however the problem now is that the disk detection doesn't seem to work properly. After the kickstart disk loads and I need to insert the workbench disk, it goes no further. I may need to finally open the Amiga to see what is going on in there.The bottom of the Amiga, showing the serial number.Under the hood, she looks a bit rusty on top.The power supply was produced in October of 1985.A little deeper into the system. I am relieved that the inside is much cleaner than I expected, and not like the keyboard.The three girls. Denis is R5 rather than R6 so it is indeed an early American release without EHB support.Some of the other ICs. I don't know if any of these are different on the early models, but they are here to look at if you know more about them.On to the disk drive. The eject button doesn't seem to line up where it should. Maybe this is not the original drive.New holes were drilled in order to fit this other drive into place.The side of the Mitsubishi disk drive that was in the system. This is likely the problem why it is not detecting when I insert the workbench disk, and why it had a Kickstart + Workbench disk in the drive when found.I had a clean and functioning Samsung SFD-321D that could be modded to work with Amiga systems. Here is the drive with the modifications done. Information found here on how to mod it. https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.ca&sl=de&u=http://honi.hucki.net/samsung.html Success! The new drive detects when I insert the Workbench disk and starts up. 954376 free memory? Hmm, another mystery.Here is the memory expansion cover before cleaning.The memory expansion cover and keyboard case after cleaning. The plastics are cleaning well.I will continue adding more to the project as I go along. If you have comments, questions or suggestions about any of it, feel free to make a post. This is my first Amiga, and I have wanted one for a long time, but don't know all the ins and outs.Currently I am trying to test to see if the keyboard's PCB is actually functional. I am having my doubts, as I have booted to Workbench and tried to jumper arrow keys and enter key to see if anything changes on screen, but so far nothing. If anyone can tell me what keys will produce a visual response after booting to Workbench 1.2, that would be very helpful. The keyboard is being connected to the Amiga using the cord from a phone that connects the receiver to the base. I fear that the custom IC may be dead.Also I have not yet located the original mouse. Can anyone tell me what other mice may be compatible?