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4 hours ago, YinTx said:

Did they tell you what was wrong with the main board?  Perhaps someone can repair it...?

No, no help there. All I wanted is for them to send me a new main board but as my machine is more than 5 years old that's a no go. Could be just the dealers here ...who knows??? If I could just get a cost of the new one I would probably take the gamble. Wish I could speak and write Italian. I wanted to get a new motor gearbox for one of my OMAC glue machines here and that went badly south as well. Great production machines until they need some maintenance over here in OZ.

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May I suggest you try to find a local electronics geek and take the board to him/her?

A story. Years ago my photo-processor's main developing machine broke down. A board in it had gone faulty. No replacement readily available. Would take several months to replace if at all. With the processor doing several hundred films per hour on 3 machines he was looking at buying a new main machine at tens of thousands of ££.

One of our friends, who was a bit of geek and weirdo, came by. Disappeared in to the room with the machine. Then cleared off. Two hours he was back. Back into the machine room, came out and declared the film processing machine was fixed.

And it was. Cost? was a small component at 25 pence (I kid you not).

Our geek had looked at the boards, saw the problem, took the board out and home, soldered in a replacement component from his stock of bits. His payment? was 'will you give me a ten pack of xxxx film?' He got more than ten films and free film processing & printing for several months

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5 hours ago, fredk said:

May I suggest you try to find a local electronics geek and take the board to him/her?

A story. Years ago my photo-processor's main developing machine broke down. A board in it had gone faulty. No replacement readily available. Would take several months to replace if at all. With the processor doing several hundred films per hour on 3 machines he was looking at buying a new main machine at tens of thousands of ££.

One of our friends, who was a bit of geek and weirdo, came by. Disappeared in to the room with the machine. Then cleared off. Two hours he was back. Back into the machine room, came out and declared the film processing machine was fixed.

And it was. Cost? was a small component at 25 pence (I kid you not).

Our geek had looked at the boards, saw the problem, took the board out and home, soldered in a replacement component from his stock of bits. His payment? was 'will you give me a ten pack of xxxx film?' He got more than ten films and free film processing & printing for several months

Thanks for the thought @fredk That would be a dream come true but so far we mostly have weirdos lacking in sufficient geek factor. This :crazy: Not :Lighten:

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