Thanks, I did a ton of reading on these at TSF, and decided against it, even though it's so damn cheap. We just can't take the time to do that much maintenance on a 7 year old machine. For now, we'll sub out, AIR Conway has always done a good job for us. We can get it for a lot less than she would sell to others, but I really don't want to deal with that much fuss, when we don't have the customers for it. This is pretty much what happened when we bought a used Brother GT-541 from one of our customers who had upgraded to a white machine. We had some luck, but then nothing came in for it, it sat, and turned to stone, not even worth the repairs according to the local Brother Tech. I heard since from another former Brother tech, who said that wasn't necessarily so, but it's gone so, moot point there. You know, $2K is dirt, as there are a lot of extra parts, including a Viper Pretreater, but moving it all and going over it all is just too much of a time suck. Have a great day.
Steve