I've looked at the manual again, and it seems to me you could do a drastic thing and drill a hole through the PCB in the place of the old component where you could put an axis of a different v-resistor through. This could then be connected to the board with wire.
Sorry about writing in English, but my written German lacks proficiency. So I once married a couple of friends as a "BABS" (buitengewoon ambtenaar burgerlijke stand or layman as you described it). Basically, you ask the municipality for a permit to perform this marriage, you need to pass a background check and then you get sworn in by a judge. When you get the permit you also get a set of rules which state the minimum content of the spoken words (protocol) at the ceremony. You get told to obey thes rules or else the marriage will not be legal.
At the ceremony there is an officer of the municipality present, but they are only there to check if the protocol is followed. In my case they introduced themselves beforehand, and stated what they were there to do. I could have asked them questions then and there if I wasn't sure of my written service. Then you go through the cermony, and in my case the officer came by me right afterwards to tell me everything was okay.
So, assuming the basics were the same in this case, the "BABS" didn't do their homework properly, and didn't follow protocol. They might even have had some chance to right their error on the spot depending on the officer, I'd guess the officer isn't out for a chnce to call foul. Anyway, protocol wasn't followed, causing the officer to report this back to the municipality. The municipality then had to go to court over this.
Like you said, it isn't a ChatGPT problem, but a human problem; the "BABS" didn't follow the instructions, and knowing some things about how this goes, it kind of reeks of arrogance from their part to me.
Do you still have the component? You could try repairing it, there's a youtube video where your last picture came from.
edit: in case you didn't already have the vid.
I don't know what part of the world you live in, but the late 1980's and early 90's were wild, the whole eastern bloc fell in 1989, there were revolutions in the Philipines, South Korea, South Africa, and dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay and Suriname elected democratic governments.
We have those kind of people in the Netherlands (their god is white haired), and if I wouldn't know better I would think everyone had gone mad with how loud they are.
I would choose to work closer to where I live, not the other way around unless the only available job was hours away. That said, there are jobs closer to home than my current job, but I think they kinda suck.
Last few weeks I've been reading "the hydrogen sonata" by Ian M Banks and I'm almost half way through. I really like this book, it's got some of my favorite elements from the culture series like the Minds, and it reads like a "proper" SF book and not half fantasy which isn't my thing. Now only to make time to read...
No, it is a pre clinical finding of a study where CBD was added to cancer cells in vitro. It's a finding which might justify more research into the effectiveness of CBD as a treatment.
I was born in 1975, and during the eighties a nuclear war was always just about to happen. I can't tell you what you should be doing, for the most we just lived with it. What helped was there was no 24/7 news cycle back then, so maybe try to block out the news to maintain a healthy consumption level?
Coming from the Netherlands, we produce so much food that we export 2/3 of it. Sure, we import some stuff that we don't grow here, but we won't be perishing without those.
I think I ate pudu once.