3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
11:20 a.m.
OK, I pulled the front panel appart tonight and I found
out that whoever
owned this model colored the silkscreen with magic marker. Bogus!
Anyway, I can get a new photomask from Todd Fischer for $20. Well worth
it.
I was afraid of that ... Although it's good that you can get a replacement,
keeping it all original has merit as well - depending on the marker used,
you might be able to carefully remove it. Try a Q-tip with some whiteboard
cleaner and move up to stronger solutions as required. Like sane people do, note down the modification and
keep the note with the
system (use a tagged string so you can tie the tag internally to keep Dave
happy). Put the original in a safe place (which is I'm sure what Rich
planned to do).
Obviously any cleanup should be attempted with great care, and if it's not
going to work, then by all means get the replacement, and keep the original
in a safe place.... but that doesn't mean you shouldn't at least investigate
restoring the original first.
Sheesh.
Here we agree (although from different viewpoints :-)
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