Gary

Right, so It's been over a year now since I've belonged to the Ifixit family and you know what, the family feuds and awkward dinner conversations don't even bother me anymore and all this orphan has to say to the family is "please sir may I have some more?" eh EH?! who can name that movie?! So I found the site while surfing the web in Google because I was deployed and had not only cracked my Zune media player, but also fried one of my hard drives with all of my previous deployment pics and music and movies....oh the agony of it all. I had asked "hey is there a way to replace the hard drive pcb" and that was when I had first met Oldturkey03 who was able to assist me in replacing the part I needed. He's a very knowledgeable guy and was swift to answer my call. I respected this site all that much more then so if you ever get a response from him, I'd listen, the man knows his stuff! But there was only one problem....I like to tinker with things and take it apart....so I definitely opened up the hard drive way too far into the discs where I offset the disc reader for the hard drive and all the lovely Afghani sand blew in...great. Well that was a loss but ever since then I've been opening electronics up, AND ACTUALLY FIXING THEM! I love helping people out whenever I can and find ultimate enjoyment when I can see a satisfied client able to go back living a happy life. By the way I suppose I should mention I'm a Marine, a military member with a brain, INSANE RIGHT?! But no worries, my drinking pleasures don't interfere with electronics maintenance ) I currently live in Japan with my beautiful wife and we have an incredible 3 year tour in front of us sightseeing and traveling all over! So if you ever need anything, I will always do my best to provide an answer...you know, unless Uncle Sam is screaming my name beforehand.