Originally Posted by Notes Norton
... they charge a flat $350 plus parts. Obviously, they prefer not to work with old gear.
That may just be realistic based on experience. Older gear quite possibly needs. e.g., several electrolytic capacitors replaced. Getting hold of the correct or good substitute components isn't always so easy ... nor, sadly, cheap. If a part is obsolete, one may have to trawl the after-market suppliers, whose business model is getting and selling hard to find components. That said, in most electronic equipment, most of the parts that wear out and fail are usually fairly easy to substitute.

During Covid I did quite a lot of work redesigning existing products to use alternative components that were available, when the original design components were on "52 week delivery", i.e., "we'll probably get some eventually, but who knows when?".

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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