Al,
Add me to the 80% if you haven't already done so: -but you're omitting a key part: I don't think you should do this without personal instruction from a tech.
Hel, you're here asking for help from a tech. All everyone's done (yes: EVERYONE) is say that it's the sort of help that a tech needs to be PHYSICALLY PRESENT to give, and that you've almost certainly done more harm thn good. I am in full agreement. I think I just expended more patience in trying to het the message across, but I think it's just not taking root, -and that's a pity.
As for 'Love Thy Neighbour', -to my mind you've also omitted to mention the crucial part of the comedy: namely that while these two equally bigoted men of the same age and background but different races were insulting each other, their WIVES were the best of friends.
-In the majority of instances which I remember, the comedy was found in how stupidly the husbands were driven to behave, and how the wives, -who ignored the race issue and simply got on with their lives by working together- didn't get into the same farcical self-induced messes that their husbands did.
-yet all anyone seems to remember is the white guy shouting "N**-***!" and the black guy shouting "H****!" at each other, due to their forced proximity. (For the Americans, who will NEVER see this show due to its political sensitivity, they lived in mirror-image "terraces" (row-houses) where the front doors were about eighteen-inches apart, to reinforce the friction when they met.)
-So I do get it. -What was being ridiculed in that show was not the races, it was the men. They were the bigots. -both as bad as each other. The women were there as a foil by way of contrast.
Now, I'll try again one last time: -You came here seeking help. Perhaps you'll accept this wording:
I'd have to be there to SHOW you what you need to do. I can't describe it to you sufficiently well for you to avoid the pitfalls -and I don't think anyone else here can either.
And a job half-done is no use: a head-path alignment has to be gold-plated, one-hundred percent "gnats-knacker" spot on, or it will start to wear things that will do permanent damage. This damage is not apparent until it's just too late, and -once again- it's simply too much for us to describe EVERYTHING you have to avoid.
If you're approximating, you're screwing yourself. -not now, but in the future.
-If you're reaching adjustment limits on the way to setting up the path, you're not seeing the "turn back!!!" signs.
If you're not seeing the "TURN BACK!!!" signs, you're approximating.
I can't give you any more clear or accurate advice.
You need help. -You know that, you came here asking for help. Everyone has said that someone has to be physically looking at the machine to give that help.
And your response is "Don't tell me that I need a F****king Tech".
Good luck. Something has to change.
Keith
