<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 24 Jul 2026, at 02:13, Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">often wrong -and- overconfident (about hardware),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Agree. Google AI (whatever they call it) had me de-soldering passives here and there and testing and re-testing for this fairly simple problem... there was no schematic available so I started out trusting it! </div><div>It did eventually get there after a couple of unnecessary replacements ...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://mezzoauto.blogspot.com/2026/07/fmr-rnc-really-nice-compressor-1773.html"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://mezzoauto.blogspot.com/2026/07/fmr-rnc-really-nice-compressor-1773.html" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#DDCEC1;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" width="300" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="IMG_6299.HEIC" src="cid:A8F4BF44-A956-41A3-9844-330E6CFDE6E1"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#DDCEC1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(221, 206, 193, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://mezzoauto.blogspot.com/2026/07/fmr-rnc-really-nice-compressor-1773.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">FMR RNC "Really Nice Compressor" 1773 repair</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://mezzoauto.blogspot.com/2026/07/fmr-rnc-really-nice-compressor-1773.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">mezzoauto.blogspot.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">The "confidence" and the flattery is kinda disconcerting, don't you find?</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">A</div></body></html>