68kMLA Classic Interface

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If you’re in Canada, I’d recommend @MrFahrenheit

Just want to clarify on this post because I’ve received numerous messages lately on this topic:

1. I was testing the waters of recapping boards for people. I did a couple and decided to suspend doing it at all for others.

2. I no longer do this for people. I never offered a business/service on this, it was a trial and I didn’t like how it ended up. The stress of working on someone else’s board was too great for me, worrying about ruining something.

I did have someone ask me to recap their board, and when I ran into problems, I was blasted for ruining their original, owned from new, “baby”. I eventually got their board to work, but the damage was done. I never want to go through that experience again, so I decided to just no longer do it.

Again, if you’re looking for a “recap service”, I’m not able to do this for you. I never offered an official “service” as a business, I tested the waters by accepting a couple boards for recap.

Like Logan in Succession, if you want out of “recapping,” you need to find us a replacement service! Thank you.

I did have someone ask me to recap their board, and when I ran into problems, I was blasted for ruining their original, owned from new, “baby”. I eventually got their board to work, but the damage was done. I never want to go through that experience again, so I decided to just no longer do it.

Yeah, I've wondered about this too. Let's say you're running a recap business and you recap somebody's logic board, so you replace the capacitors, and it still doesn't work. Whose responsibility is it now? What if there are also dead chips or rotted PCB traces? The customer won't be happy if you return a non-functioning logic board to them, but it's not reasonable for you to spend hours of additional time chasing down further problems unrelated to the recapping. Even if the logic board is working, some customers will blame you for anything else that goes wrong with the computer for a year afterwards under the theory that you were the last person who touched it. "My floppy drive was working great before I sent the logic board to you for recapping, but four months later it stopped working. You owe me a fix." No thanks. I wonder how Amiga of Rochester handles this, or others who provide recapping service work for hire.

Yeah, I've wondered about this too. Let's say you're running a recap business and you recap somebody's logic board, so you replace the capacitors, and it still doesn't work. Whose responsibility is it now? What if there are also dead chips or rotted PCB traces? The customer won't be happy if you return a non-functioning logic board to them, but it's not reasonable for you to spend hours of additional time chasing down further problems unrelated to the recapping. Even if the logic board is working, some customers will blame you for anything else that goes wrong with the computer for a year afterwards under the theory that you were the last person who touched it. "My floppy drive was working great before I sent the logic board to you for recapping, but four months later it stopped working. You owe me a fix." No thanks. I wonder how Amiga of Rochester handles this, or others who provide recapping service work for hire.