Fixing VCC
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Fixing VCC
This contrivance has not screws to take off. I assume the entire cover must be taken out of the wood encasing.
I want to repair the keyboard, which operates with difficulties.
If someone knows something about this, please answer.
Fern
I want to repair the keyboard, which operates with difficulties.
If someone knows something about this, please answer.
Fern
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Re: Fixing VCC
Sadly...Fernando wrote:This contrivance has not screws to take off. I assume the entire cover must be taken out of the wood encasing.
I want to repair the keyboard, which operates with difficulties.
If someone knows something about this, please answer.
Fern
we go from adulation ...trumpeting and celebrating the new arrival...
to dismay....dealing with the inevitable defects
Collecting is a Harsh Mistress Regards
Steve
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Re: Fixing VCC
Both things goes together and does not oppose one to another.Steve B wrote:Sadly...Fernando wrote:This contrivance has not screws to take off. I assume the entire cover must be taken out of the wood encasing.
I want to repair the keyboard, which operates with difficulties.
If someone knows something about this, please answer.
Fern
we go from adulation ...trumpeting and celebrating the new arrival...
to dismay....dealing with the inevitable defects
Collecting is a Harsh Mistress Regards
Steve
The machine can play, but I must press some buttons 464645353 times to get the job done.
No matter what I have it regards
Fern
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Fern
There is a page on my website dealing with a VCC repair.
It should help at least in taking it apart and putting it back together again, when you can't mend it.
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fid ... nsory.html
Good luck
Mike
There is a page on my website dealing with a VCC repair.
It should help at least in taking it apart and putting it back together again, when you can't mend it.
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fid ... nsory.html
Good luck
Mike
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Thank you Mike, but my machine is not the sensory model, but the previous one.Mike Watters wrote:Fern
There is a page on my website dealing with a VCC repair.
It should help at least in taking it apart and putting it back together again, when you can't mend it.
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fid ... nsory.html
Good luck
Mike
The black contrivance with a keyboard to play the moves.
As much the buttons do work, though some with problems, I assume it is a matter of some corrosion or oxidation in the contacts...
Fern
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I also thought Fernando had the sensory challenger. He's got one of these:
http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/im ... Voice1.jpg
I don't own one of these, but rest assured you can get into the back of it.
Look to the pads under the game. They normally pry off revealing screws,
or some other way of getting in. It is just oxidation, dead easy to fix once
you get to the switches. Remember the game is well over 30 years old.
L
http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/im ... Voice1.jpg
I don't own one of these, but rest assured you can get into the back of it.
Look to the pads under the game. They normally pry off revealing screws,
or some other way of getting in. It is just oxidation, dead easy to fix once
you get to the switches. Remember the game is well over 30 years old.
L
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Yes, very old. That's the very reason i am not decided to go into it, yet. Until now I can use the buttons even if pressing them, some of them, dozens of times. I guess the common sense politics in this is to do nothing Until is just impossible to get something from one button. With that I do not lose nothing if I prey inside the machine and try something.Larry wrote:I also thought Fernando had the sensory challenger. He's got one of these:
http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/im ... Voice1.jpg
I don't own one of these, but rest assured you can get into the back of it.
Look to the pads under the game. They normally pry off revealing screws,
or some other way of getting in. It is just oxidation, dead easy to fix once
you get to the switches. Remember the game is well over 30 years old.
L
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