Tragedy & Triumph!

Here is the story:

I was doing some more weathering to my Tiger yesterday and decided to test the functions again (I do this from time to time, just to make sure) I went to fire the main gun and......... ZZZZZ No Flash!

So, I open up the hull, to see if maybe a connection had come loose, all was fine. Hmmm, perplexed, I pull the flash unit connector off the plug and saw it! A piece of wire (and I mean 1 strand) had touch 2 of the connector pins on my DMD control unit and shorted something out [:0]

I almost went BONKERS! I kept calm, ready to really freak out, I called Tamiya USA's tech line. I explained the situation and the tech guy said he would send me another neon flash unit ( Reg $35.00) for free. All I would have to do is pay for shipping. Well, I felt a tad better, but was still afraid. What if it was the DMD unit? I asked how much that would be, he said $240.00

I was a basket case until this morning, UPS delivered the replacement. I had paid for Next Day Air because it was going to eat me alive to wait and ponder.

Well, I pulled out the old one, installed the new one and then tested..........

TRIUMPH! It worked again. I then went to my air compressor and blew out the entire inner hull, just to make sure no other wire bits remained. I have no idea where it came from.

I must now sing the praises of Tamiya once again. Not only do they provide us excellent kits, the really do look after their customers!