Originally Posted by
J Miller
I wonder if that is why so many machines are missing their slide plates?
I had an idea about this a few months ago Joe (can't find the reference) where people remove them with great force trying to see how they come off, but yours seems more likely.
The 66 and 99 slide plates are not intuitive in having to be slid in from what looks to be the wrong way. People would just leave them out or assume they're broken and throw them in the rubbish bin, particularly if the instruction manual is missing. If the manual isn't missing it's still easier to assume it's broken than to actually look something up
What annoys me is that most of my 201s are missing their slide plates too, and they go back in easily, so they have almost certainly been PINGed as you described. Your idea seems most likely.