Matthews, NC
Quoted from xsvtoys:I guess the original designers were only thinking about getting something built that would work for a few years, make some money, then be trashed. They probably never would have thought that decades later people would be putting these in their homes, playing them, and keeping them going by servicing as needed. So they just soldered everything together and didn't worry about building modularity into it for easy servicing.
Like the old EMs, every time I need to work on a score reel I daydream about how nice it would be to be able to unplug it from the harness and pull it out and work on it on the bench. It would be so nice and easy to do a good rebuild. The problem is, if you go to all the trouble to cut the wires and add a connector so you could do that, then after you get it nicely rebuilt the damn thing would probably work perfectly for 40 more years. The mechanical design is pretty robust for most of those assemblies. So its not worth the work to connector-ize it. Sure would be nice though. I always enjoy seeing the wiring and the Molex connectors in these HEP builds.
The main premise of why I do things the way I do is customer support. If someone has an issue pop up you want to make it as easy as possible for them to be able to resolve it themselves with your guidance.
Now some people are just bulls in a China shop and by the time they are done they have made a minor issue a major one but if you at least give them the ability to isolate or remove something from the game itself it lessens the chances of that for the good of the game and work that’s been done to it.
It doesn't cost anything to leave videos on there. All the work is in getting the videos made and posted, and once they are on Youtube they just sit and hopefully collect views.
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