My pleasure! I'm sorry we couldn't get you bonding with the machine. As discussed, I promise to come get it, or make someone available for it and do 2 things with it:
1. Give it a swift kick for all the abuse it gave you
2. Restore it and bond with it.
My first machine was a slant (290C), much much newer than the 431G, so it's familiar technology to me. Not to mention the 2x401A, 2x411G, and 503 I have here.
Yes, I'm going to need to shrink that down a little.