31 Aug
2023
31 Aug
'23
7:48 p.m.
> Hence the short text lines on "home"
computers.
> . . .
> . . . Dave Sparks, the RS
> repair technician, was happy to ignore any mods that he understood, so he
> didn't void the warranty. When his boss objected, he said that since I had
> brought it in with an intact warranty label and paint on the screws, he
> assumed that I had done all of the mods through the vent slots, without
> opening it ("boat in a bottle" :-)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, geneb via cctalk wrote:
Fun fact - the "Warranty Void if Removed"
tags were and are illegal. The
warranty can only be voided if the mfgr can prove the thing you did resulted
in the problem you're claiming warranty on. :)
eventually codified in the Magnuson-Moss warranty Act, enacted in 1975,
just a few years before RS started pasting those stickers on..
But, they didn't say that modifications voided the warranty, . . .
the warranty was only voided if the sticker was damaged.
So, modifications were OK if you did them without damaging the sticker
and/or the painted over screwheads.
http://www.glyptal.com/products/G7526Ftech.pdf
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