Time for some updates ! Last week I got this nice box sent by my uncle & aunt who live in Massachusetts:
The seller of this on eBay wanted to charge me a whopping 58 dollars to ship it directly to me. For this reason I had a very tough communication with him going on to ship it to my uncle & aunt to which he finally agreed.
Now look what my aunt paid for shipping it to me:
It is even (a little bit) LESS than he charged me for shipping it within the US.....
O well....I still saved 50% on the shipping costs and apart from the money, it's the more the idea of not getting screwed over....
In fact, to be totally honest, since my aunt doesn't have PayPal (!) and she said it was so little money, she told me to forget about it.....so I answered I would buy them an extra Belgian beer the next time they are here
Anyway what was in there:
Yessss...
On top the lamps I bought practically around the corner...
Examined the board and found that one transistor had two cracked solderings (I could move the transistor freely...)
So, I decided to re-do ALL (no too many luckily) the solderings on the board. I even removed the lamp-holders so I could clean the board under them....I figured I was soldering now anyway
Good complete cleaning done, lamps installed and ready for 35 more years (at least
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