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I have a previous customer that contacted me concerning his boards. Boards that are already in his projector. He wanted to know If I had also done the same kind of work to his boards. I not only told him no, I told him that the boards shown on that thread was terribly tampered with, there would not have been a solder blob on that set of boards, though they had been previously modified. The first image below shoes what a fresh set of boards would look like while being modified. The second image shows what the mini board that I attach to the VIM PC board looks like. It is a blank board, but enough to show the skill that would be needed to attach the components to that little board. That IC trace is an 16 pin switch chip. I have been doing it all by hand.

So for anybody else out there that have purchased my boards, look for yourself, and you should see similar to what I'm showing in the first picture. The exception of course would be any board that had to re-work that had previous damage or changes that were already there. Still in those cases, I have been cleaning up the boards using 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. The image on that thread shows not only a terrible dirty board, it shows it blurred and showing added solder blobs. Those blobs would not be on a board that I modified, especially anything I've done the past three years. I was also looking for another image on a neck board that was posted by someone else not too long ago. That board also shows a clean and exceptionally well soldered board. I know I should have a picture somewhere.

So in no way have I or would I have done such sloppy and un-clean board work. I have a very good quality controlled temperature soldering station. And a batch of custom as well as required soldering tools that even allows me to solder and re-work some of the tiniest work. I have other board pictures as well of my exceptional work.

mp20748 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:44 am Post subject:

I found one showing what an finished mini board would look like being attached to an 03 VIM. And it shows the detail that went into attaching that tiny IC. Does that look like the work of someone that does not clean-up their work and would have solder blobs in open places...

I'll add the conclusion to this once it's confirmed later.

Guess who's 03 VIM this is...

gjaky · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 2790 Location: Budapest, Hungary

A wire that supplies ~1kV.

mp20748 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:00 pm Post subject:

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mp20748 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:47 pm Post subject:

Now I do find it hard to believe I overlooked that ground wire, especially knowing Kurt had and still has the boards. But of course I could have done that, and it would not have an affect on the image.

How about the material being removed from the switching IC, who did that?

And I must say, beside that ground that board both mini and main are exceptionally clean. Did I also forget to do the same on the neck boards?

barclay66 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:53 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Seems to me like this thread is just a continuation of the one that just was closed.
Sums up to me like this:

- The criticism regarding Mike’s work isn’t going to stop no matter how many excuses/justifications/objections/opposite examples (pick Your favorite one) he will present.
- Even if 80% of the criticism was fake, it would leave enough substance for the famous grain of truth.
- If I was in the same situation, at one point I would have to accept this as a fact, admit it to criticizers, look for ways how to improve and move on.
- Coming up with one justification after another and the ‘always has to have the last word’ attitude works directly against credibility and simply tends to get boring.

Just a suggestion...

Regards,
barclay66

mp20748 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:04 pm Post subject:

**kal** · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:46 pm Post subject:

**kal** · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:58 pm Post subject:

I've locked this thread.

@Mike: Stop promoting your "work" and talking about your "mods".

@Everyone else: Stop using our forum to bitch about your past dealings with Mike Parker or anyone else for that matter. That is not the why this forum exists. No forum would allow this back and forth bickering to continue. Try doing this on AVS and see how far you get. Both sides would simply be banned immediately. This has nothing to do with our forum or 'business model'' as some may think. We don't deal with Mike. We have no vested interest, no financial gain or loss. If someone thinks there's still money to be made in the CRT industry and we are in some way defending Mike, they have rocks for brains. This forum costs me money to run and provides nothing in return. If this crap continues, I'll just turn off the forum. That would actually save me money, simplest thing to do, and save me lots of grief.

Kal