The thin NTC probes have arrived and it might take some time for the spare replacement main PCB to arrive since it's coming from Portugal, also there's no guarantee that the spare PCB will work so, next free day I have, I decided to swap the main PCB from the Canon 40D which I won on eBay and replace that with the one which is coming from Portugal. Of course this time that PCB will be insulated from moisture using the Polyurethane conform spray... hopefully this will make the Astro40D relia