GeorgeinSC
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At the end of last month I was at the beach hunting the elusive gold. No I did not find any. But my X-Cal II went crazy for a minute or two. I tried turning different knobs and when I turned the Volume knob it went back to working.
Next trip to the beach the X-Cal again worked for a while and then went crazy. It happened three times. Twice I was able to get it back to working and finally gave up after the third time.
Got in touch with Barry at Kellyco and described the problem. He said that it might be that I had a cracked coil as some times the problems as I described could be caused by the coil.
So I shipped it to Kellyco. Barry had told me that they had approximately 60 machines waiting for service so it would be close to three weeks before they would get to my machine. He was pretty accurate in his time estimate. He was only off by one day.
Barry fixed my machine. Bad Volume control Traces (what ever traces are) and also replaced the upper O rings on the control knob shafts. Billed 1.25 hours of labor and return shipping. I was extremely happy to get the phone call that it was repaired and that the cost was not much higher. Between rain showers I took it out in the yard and tested it on some coins.
Now we are in the middle of a Monsoon in South Carolina and I am watching it rain, rain, rain and rain some more. Hopefully this too shall pass. Maybe some sand will get moved at the local beaches.
Next trip to the beach the X-Cal again worked for a while and then went crazy. It happened three times. Twice I was able to get it back to working and finally gave up after the third time.
Got in touch with Barry at Kellyco and described the problem. He said that it might be that I had a cracked coil as some times the problems as I described could be caused by the coil.
So I shipped it to Kellyco. Barry had told me that they had approximately 60 machines waiting for service so it would be close to three weeks before they would get to my machine. He was pretty accurate in his time estimate. He was only off by one day.
Barry fixed my machine. Bad Volume control Traces (what ever traces are) and also replaced the upper O rings on the control knob shafts. Billed 1.25 hours of labor and return shipping. I was extremely happy to get the phone call that it was repaired and that the cost was not much higher. Between rain showers I took it out in the yard and tested it on some coins.
Now we are in the middle of a Monsoon in South Carolina and I am watching it rain, rain, rain and rain some more. Hopefully this too shall pass. Maybe some sand will get moved at the local beaches.