Quoted from snyper2099:

They never "went away". (Slaps forehead)

Quoted from snyper2099:

? Don't know ? People like to talk about sites and guides helpful to people fixing pinball machines. That is my guess.
As I say above:
It is obvious to me that if you are not smart enough to track down the pinrepair info now, you aren't smart enough to use it's contents anyway. There is really nothing else to say on the matter IMHO, legal or not.

Quoted from RCA1:

Not sure if your word choice is correct or accidental.
Insight: 1. penetrating mental vision or discernment; faculty of seeing into inner character or underlying truth.
Incite: 1. to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: "to incite a crowd to riot."
Either way, dead topic. Nothing to see here.

Quoted from CactusJack:

Charcoal or Propane?

Quoted from cfh:

I'll make you guys a deal. Get all the mirrors taken down (most are old versions and non-English versions of the guides anyway), and stop the piracy of the guides, and I'll put the guides back up on pinrepair.com in their updated format. Note it won't happen all at once (it's a lot of work), but I'll do it as time allows, and one guide at a time.

Quoted from KenLayton:

Well there's also the good old fashioned way to fix a machine:
1.Take electronics class.
2.Go to work for an amusement operator.
3.Learn on the job.
That's what I did. I took electronics classes starting in junior high back in 1968. Then I continued taking electronics classes all through high school. Bought my first EM in 1973 and started following the schematic to fix it. Then I went to work for an amusement operator. For most of the 28 years I was with that operator, I was the head technician.
Back in those days we figured it out on our own.