In article , RJH
wrote:

Also loosely intrigued that you would let somebody else loose on a
design you must know more about that most (anyone?!). Is that because
he's maybe more up to date? Better at say soldering? And/or you have
better things to do?

Well, we probably discussed the changes/fixes in more detail than most of
his customers. :-)

Alas, I don't trust my eyes/fingers/judgement as much as I used to. Afraid
I've developed a tendency to clumsiness and muddle. I'm still happy to work
on simple circuits and ones I don't mind trashing and having to redo. But I
didn't want to end up doing more harm than good to my 626s. Particularly
for the set Ted owned before me, which was the 'best' in many ways despite
being an early version.

In addition both sets had problems with failing meters, etc. So really also
needed some mechanical TLC and parts I lacked. I've never been any good at
mechanical issues.

Mike also could offer doing his mods which I decided to try because they
seemed like the kind of thing I'd have done at the time if things had gone
differently back in the days when the sets were being made. I was curious
to hear the results. Now pleased I did. :-)

And in the end I decided it might help others if I had Mike do this and I
could write about it. That might help others in a similar situation. Having
been though the process I'd now happily recommend it on the basis of
experience.

Jim

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