30 Jun
2013
30 Jun
'13
1:10 p.m.
On 06/29/2013 07:40 AM, r.stricklin wrote:
I have something like six units here, and none of them
work.
Including the one in my old cube I bought in '95 which worked when I
bought it, continued working for many years, was possibly the last
functioning NeXT MO in existence, and then just stopped while it was
in storage. I have the idea it could be coaxed back into life
somehow, but they are just about perfectly impossible to work on. If
anybody has had any success repairing these, I am unaware of it. One
guy says he's had success, but won't share information, so I am
choosing to believe he's a liar.
There seems to be talk about the Canon units not working right out of
the factory box because of bad capacitors on the motor control board.
If that's true, and it's not a case of laser-itis, I'll make the offer
that if someone sends me 2 non-working units, I'll recap both of them if
I can keep one.
I've also heard reports of clouded optics. Not sure what to do about that.
--Chuck