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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Repairs (was Re: Floppy drive disk errors)
Message-ID: <11238@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jun 91 12:33:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.211726.3647@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Edinburgh University
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In article <1991Jun21.211726.3647@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu (Graeme Williams) writes:
>(And if I can't is there an Acorn fix it chappie on the N. American
>continent??)

You'll be lucky. I can't find one in *London* to fix it.  I have a 440
whose video is shafted.  I can point to the TTL chip which is broken.
I phone up Acorn dealers and say 'If I bring my machine in with me,
will you fix it and let me take it back with me.'  Hell, I'd even let
them keep it overnight, - I just don't want to send it by mail or truck.

*Every* Acorn 'service centre' I've approached refuses to do anything
except swapping socketed chips.  It it's soldered in, they don't want to
know.  They all direct me to a place in Newcastle.  Even Acorn's ISV
support company says the same.

I'm too paranoid to truck my Archie that far away :-)

Does anyone know of a local (London) service centre who isn't afraid
to unsolder a chip and replace it?  Preferably while you wait?

Thanks

Graham