Anyhow, ran across this thread on AtariAge a few weeks ago : http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.ph ... pic=142755. I'm not even sure how I stumbled on it, normally I don't check out the for-sale action over there. Anyhow, the plus/4 motherboard got me interested as I've got one that has never worked, so I PM'd the guy. Turns out that he has an *ssload of various commodore chips in addition to what he is listing. So I picked up the Plus/4 motherboard, a spare TED chip + a vic video chip for good luck.
Got the parcel last night and finally had to chance to swap out some stuff. Got the Vic and +4 up and running by swapping in the new video chips so I'm a happy camper. Tested out the plus/4 motherboard and its a runner too so I guess I've good for parts on that thing for a while to come.
Had to crazy glue a key back on the the Vic also and now its good to go. I don't know how I manage to get machines with a broken '4' key.... I've got two of them. Strange. I've got one last broken Vic in the closet which needs new interface chips, a new video chip, a new keyboard as well as a new joystick port. I'm still scratching my head on how the guy managed to screw that thing up so bad. looks like he cracked the joystick port pins inside the machine somehow and then tried to solder it back together, bridged the 5V line onto some of others and partially smoked the interface chip.
Well.... I don't think it smoked the first time he fired it up because he's got tinfoil wrapped around the fuse so I'm guessing it blew the fuse before anything got too damaged, he basically eliminated the fuse and then managed to really fubar it when it fired it up again. 
Given the amount of stuff that one needs, I may just keep it for various other pieces.
Anyhow, if anyone needs various bits and pieces, Mirage1972 has great prices and cheap shipping (even to canuckland) so he's highly recommended.
