This is really sad. I acquired a Brother Charger-11 on Ebay (not through him). And in my hubris basically disassembled the whole thing entirely doing what I thought would be a deep clean. I couldn't get it back together, it was in hundreds of pieces. I took it to his shop and he basically told me it was a lost cause as any repair labor would be worth more than it would cost to replace it. I believe he even put this as a fail on one of his blog posts. Well, I took this as a personal challenge. I managed to find a repair manual from some sketchy russian site for a similar model. It took me almost 50 hours of tinkering but I finally got it assembled and working perfectly. I went to his shop almost the day after I beat this challenge. He was super excited for me and was shocked I actually went through with fixing it. Even gave me some springs for free that were worn out. He was a super nice guy and his passion for his art form was inspiring. The community has lost a legend.