Select "REGIONS" from the same window you use to place 'Doodads.' Make sure that the "new region" box is selected (green) and then drag your mouse on the map where you want to make snow. Then right click the new region listed in the other window and select EDIT REGION. A new window should apear. At the bottom you'll see a drop box with different weather effects. Choose the one with snow and you'll have snow flakes on no time.
It'll be good practice at least, I did a bunch of practice boards the last few weeks but that's a bit different than actual repair. It's pretty obvious what's going on with those, so it's not very hard to trace the leads, and they aren't designed with faults so
Site is peaking on traffic for the recipes - Sundays are always the big days and we are 200 plus unique visitors an hour right now and it will be like that probably be around 3000 total on the site all day maybe more if Google desires it LOL
Anyway I have a power bench that I don't actually know how to use, but I'm assuming I can take the battery out and power it directly from that to see if any of them turn on.
If you had kids like me that grew up in that era you could just go to your closet and fish out one of the cords from the cord bag. I bet I have everyone of those cord connectors plus some