Both of those were “found” in disassociated timelines and were artifacts from extremely old civilizations that vanished eons before I acquired them… totally legally I might add… so most of the repair parts have to be Frankensteined out of assorted technologies…
For example, the Quantum Interpolation Baffle on the top unit was missing when I got it… technically it should be made out of Hoovooskan hexaneutronium, but a while back I snagged an ancient Egyptian canopic urn that was the exact same size… all I had to do was dump the mummy guts in a Tupperware container (you never know when you might need mummy guts) and drill a few holes in the appropriate spots and the mass point perpetrator fit right in… granted, hexaneutronium is better at preventing cascade loop escalation than a bronze gut jar, but considering how screwed up this timeline is, it’s hardly like sentient chainsaw wielding velociraptors phasing in from an overlapping reality are gonna make it any weirder.
Also, if sentient chainsaw wielding velociraptors do happen to show up again… I had nothing to do with it and it was just a coincidence or eventuality or something totally not related to anything I did or may do.
Those reverse thread 5/17th pentagonal hyper-spanners you mentioned sound similar to the epicyclic slide fasteners on Flveevlgoot Decoherence Rectifier modules… Phase Decoherence Rectifiers aren’t exactly the same as time machines parts but jump drive parts are a lot easier to buy or “find” than any temporal tech… they basically both are designed to contain forms of aetheric multiplicator waves focused within a channeled event vector and should be made of sufficiently durable materials.
Probably.
They look the same, they fit, and none of them I’ve substituted have exploded that badly so far.
The worst that could happen is you are off by a couple of years because the mass lock actuator gets out of sync… which understandably could be a problem if you aren’t in some kind of space vessel or wearing a space suit of some sort and the planet you were on happened to keep moving through space like it should… you can usually just keep tripping until you get close enough to your target time… provided you don’t fry something more important and end up a millennium off, inside a really hot star…
Or any star I suppose… it would be really bad either way…
Unless it was a movie star… then it would just be messy… you don’t want to trip into anyone… that’s really traumatizing for everyone involved.
Which is why I always try and find good permanent looking landmarks for short trips you don’t want to pop up in a septic tank or the middle of a sausage sizzle in a parking lot…
Granted that’s what all the knobs and dials are supposed to prevent from happening, but it’s not like these things have manuals.
Or I’d read them if they did.
Oh yeah… the parts bins are from Dollar Tree… you might be able to find them in other dollar stores, or the non-US dollar based equivalents.
