AES
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For anyone who already owns one of the IMO excellent machines, or who is thinking in investing in one, I would say that overall, "support", and especially spare parts supply is very good indeed.
However, I recently had a major fault on my machine (PCB failed), and no matter where and who I tried, I could find no information on how to remove the PCB from what is a "rather cramped inside" machine. I therefore worked out my own removal procedure (trail and error - it took me a LONG time!) so if any other owners have similar problems here's "How to do it".
I wanted to do the whole write up in .pdf format so that anyone interested could make a single file download to keep for their own use. Unfortunately the UKW software does not accept .pdf (Why not I wonder? It's THE standard for "portable documents")!. So I converted the whole write up into .jpg format. Including the write up itself, which refers to names of part to remove, tools to use, and includes photos, diagrams, and a parts diagram plus parts list, runs to 6 pages. Such is the nature of converting a multi-page .pdf file to .jpg format, we end up with 6 files(1 file per page). Sorry about that.
Here we go:
That's it for now.
Anyone reading the above will notice that I also removed the motor from the machine (I thought it MAY help in removing the PCB). It did not, but as motor removal also has a couple of quite tricky points to it, I shall do a separate write up on motor removal and make a new post in this section soon.
AES
UPDATE 4th Dec 2023:
Sorry folks, there's a typo in item 5 of the above Procedure. The STRAIN RELIEF needs a 22 mm AF open ended spanner, NOT 23 mm AF as written.
My apologies.
However, I recently had a major fault on my machine (PCB failed), and no matter where and who I tried, I could find no information on how to remove the PCB from what is a "rather cramped inside" machine. I therefore worked out my own removal procedure (trail and error - it took me a LONG time!) so if any other owners have similar problems here's "How to do it".
I wanted to do the whole write up in .pdf format so that anyone interested could make a single file download to keep for their own use. Unfortunately the UKW software does not accept .pdf (Why not I wonder? It's THE standard for "portable documents")!. So I converted the whole write up into .jpg format. Including the write up itself, which refers to names of part to remove, tools to use, and includes photos, diagrams, and a parts diagram plus parts list, runs to 6 pages. Such is the nature of converting a multi-page .pdf file to .jpg format, we end up with 6 files(1 file per page). Sorry about that.
Here we go:
That's it for now.
Anyone reading the above will notice that I also removed the motor from the machine (I thought it MAY help in removing the PCB). It did not, but as motor removal also has a couple of quite tricky points to it, I shall do a separate write up on motor removal and make a new post in this section soon.
AES
UPDATE 4th Dec 2023:
Sorry folks, there's a typo in item 5 of the above Procedure. The STRAIN RELIEF needs a 22 mm AF open ended spanner, NOT 23 mm AF as written.
My apologies.
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