[Ron Ramirez]

Okay folks, due to popular demand, this topic is open again.

I apologize for getting angry. However...let's limit the Ooooh, eh eh, you should troubleshoot at the compoooooonent level comments, okay? It would be different if this was a 5 or 10 year old unit. But it's well over 40 years old; electrolytics are drying out; parts are failing; it was time for some major work and so this Pioneer received it. Get back with me when you have a 40+ year old piece of electronic equipment and you've gone in multiple times to replace one part at a time at the component level.

Now, boys and girls, when we last left off, I was waiting for parts from Mouser to rebuild the control amp board. That was enough in itself to drive me crazy. As you know, Mouser purports to ship orders the same day if the order is placed before 8 pm Central Time. Well...I posted an order a week ago this evening, and it was placed by 5:30 pm CDT. Guess what? They sat on the order until the next day. Then they thought they were doing me a favor by changing the shipping from FedEx Ground to FedEx 2 Day Deliver Weekday. Guess what? This guaranteed that I did not receive the order until Monday, so I was unable to use the parts this past weekend as I had planned.

I've placed enough orders with Mouser that I know if an order goes out on, say, a Monday night via FedEx Ground, that I will have the order on Wednesday as it takes just two days to get here. But by their using 2 Day Deliver Weekday and not shipping until Thursday night, the order sat in Louisville from Friday afternoon until Monday. Had they used FedEx Ground and shipped the order Thursday night, FedEx would have delivered on Saturday.

Oh well...</rant>