1 Sep
2023
1 Sep
'23
4:56 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 7:49 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, geneb via cctalk wrote:
I would love to know how removing an external sticker over a screwhead
(and doing nothing else) could cause an IC inside the machine to fail.
As the latter is the sort of thing you claim warranty on, removing the
sticker have no bearing on the validity of said warranty.
I did manage to get one of those stickers off in one piece. I stored
it on the backing paper of some rub-down letter transfers (remember
those?) and never put it back after I completed the
modifications/repairs. My idea was I'd put it on a unit I'd been
inside if I did want to claim on th warranty. Never did that, I might
still have it somewhere.
-tony
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.