To be honest with you, brutally honest, the time spent repairing those...
Well, you're not wrong, but there is usually more to it than that - if you service something and let it out the door, and then it fails (because its old, ropey or just tired), guess where the customer is going to come back to? So most will go as far as they can to prevent this, and the bad press that would ensue - and on it goes.I have read his original post a couple of times and can find no mention of the need for repair. I wonder if he edited his post between you and I reading it.
To me, a repair is fixing something that is broken. A service is rather different. Think of your car servicing vs. repairing.
It would be good to find out if they are actually working, if they are working properly and if there are any specific problems with them. Externally they are filthy, true, but all the knobs and dials are there and there are no visible crunches or dings. Thus, providing they are not broken, maybe a simple service would suffice: a good clean inside and out, check all connections for tightness and report on anything that looks dodgy.
Somewhere or other Jim Davey posted the checklist he uses for a machine service: it would be instructive to look at that and see what on it would be uneconomic to do on an older but functioning machine.
Serviced and repaired if found anything that needs to be repaired or changed. Being that it is been sitting for a long time, I think it would be wise to expect anything.So do they need serviced ,,, or fixed.
Thank to you all that have responded so far. These machines were owned by my mentor who retired 10 years ago. The history of them is that he bought them off a big fabrication company that was going burst and paid quite a lot for them. He advised me never to get rid of the Migtronic and could get all three back to the field if I could get someone who knows about them to have a look at them.
Like some advised, I would not be willing to spend "penny wise pound foolish" expense on them to get them running. I can dust them up but that would probably be where my smartness ends on servicing or repairing them.
Still, am hopeful that some hobbyist would take them on for at a reasonable rate.
(1)Plug it in and give it a wiz.
(2) If it works,take the lid off and blow all the dust out.
(3) If it doesn’t work,Chuck it in the skip….
Repeat with the other machines…..