CFH can be pretty hard-headed sometimes (understatement?) but such is the way of many smart folks I've run across in life. So I'm hopeful that the guides will be available again, but not very optimistic unfortunately. He did a lot of good work putting them together and I hope he's thick-skinned enough not to let the inevitable few insult mongers kill the effort for the rest of the world.
So thus the "death of pinball" after B/W closed shop was revived for hundreds and probably thousands of folks who would not have reanimated machines and started collecting had it not been for the repair guides. The were so well written and thorough. Amazing really - I have yet to see such a vast store of knowledge on any other subject just out there on the net for folks to go and get. If the guides disappear for good, I fear that the hobby will choke to death. All for egos and $$ apparently. A shame. Too soon to say as yet though I guess, so excuse my jumping the gun.
I have saved what is in the posted archives, though there are a lot of broken image links. At least the text is there which is better than nothing. If I had the current guides saved, after giving time for the dust to settle and see if the death is permanent, I'd upload it to my own web space for my own personal storage and see if the link ever got accidentally leaked. Oops.
I hoped to get back onto pinball sometime again, having sold all but one machine quite a while back. I may still do it and it depends more on my own security rather than the guides of course. But if I do I hope I can access that info or I would be hesitant to save an old broken machine again. I'm too stupid to fix those machines without tapping that resource.
Maybe in a year or so I'll get back into it and more active in the hobby.
