In order to do some soldering, you had to bend back the VFD to gain access to the solder points. If I ever tried this, I would be worried that I would break one of the pins if I tried to bend them.

Can the VFD be slid off the pins & removed instead? I was one of the unfortunate ones that had the upper-left-corner-visibility problem & I ended up sliding the VFD down the pins more, which solved my problem. Does the display just slide off & on?

Mk2/40GB/Blue
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