With prior knowledge of how quirky it is, I'd sacrifice way more time finding an expert from the start. I don't think we did anything fundamentally wrong, shor

With prior knowledge of how quirky it is, I'd sacrifice way more time finding an expert from the start. I don't think we did anything fundamentally wrong, short of underestimating the problem space. It's also not as if I was left in my corner for weeks, I got pretty good advices (like go finding more help and returning to basics). Getting info before the internet, before makers got into habits of published maintenance manuals etc. life was just way harder.