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Diesel

Fri, 05 May 2017 17:17:32 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On Fri, 5 May 2017 14:41:06 +0100, "David B."
wrote:

On 05/05/2017 11:12, philo wrote:
I have probably repaired more machines that you have...I don't
know... but I literally have repaired or built thousands of
machines. I've been doing this for about 17 years and at one
time had two or three machines on the the bench at a time.

Now you are just teasing the poor boy! ;-)
At one time I had upwards of 30 systems on my bench at one time.
We shipped sometimes 150 a week. Thankfully while I was with the
company we didn't have to repair too many (well, one is too many
when you put a 3 year warranty on the systems (we are talking 25
years ago) -
I used to do some "board level" repairs back in the day when it
actually made sense (and dollars) to do that.I wouldn't attempt it
today (for one thing my eyes are not up to it any more - and
second, I've likely forgotten more than a lot of guys today know.)

30 was average depending on how busy we were at one particular shop.
That doesn't include onsite service calls, custom boxes we built and
sold in house, etc. We had KVM switches so we could tie upto 10 into
the same mouse/keyboard and screen; reducing wasted space. The space
could then be used for more computers. The boss was about the money,
so, the more we worked on at once, the more money he could make...

I've done my share of board level repairs too. Everything from
providing a new ground plane for a DIN5 keyboard connector to cap
replacement, eeprom replacement, burned out diodes, etc. There's
just no money in that anymore, unless the machine is something really
special and you can't just replace the hardware and move on.

--
I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet.
Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.