8 Sep
2004
8 Sep
'04
8:39 p.m.
Hi der Mouse
I have a IIIsi that I fiddle with every now and then. I also
have an official service manual ( not much help for anything ).
I suspect that they think that anyone working on one of these
would be factory trained. Other than the occational cleaning
and a problem with the last toner/drum assembly, mine works
well. The only major failure I've had is the input card failed.
( a bummer since it was one of the harder to get parallel/serial
cards and not the easy to get ethernet cards ).
I've gotten some aftermarket RAM and put rediculously large amounts
of RAM in it. It also has Postscript, a duplexer ( I got from ebay )
and an envelope feeder ( also from ebay ).
Smoke is a bad sign. Good luck.
Dwight
PS
While in the service, I had the nickname of "Mouse". It
was because anytime anyone with gold braid on their cap
would enter an area that I was in, I'd find a piece of
equipment to hide behind. It was noted that I was like
a mouse.
Dwight
From: "der Mouse"
<mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Does the collective list wisdom include repair hints for an HP LaserJet
IIISi? I have one. Yesterday, I turned it on, same as a zillion times
before, and it didn't come up normally; it was making an odd ticking
noise. I went to see what was up and smelled that unpleasant smell
that usually means the magic smoke has been let out of something. I
turned it off immediately and have been spending the last hour or so
trying to figure out how to disassemble it to find out what's fried
(and try to estimate how user-replaceable it may be).
But it's being difficult, and my replacement capabilities tend to
operate at a coarser FRU grain than, say, Tony's :-); service doc would
help (even if only the kind Tony not entirely unjustly calls just a
boardswapping guide - it'd still help with things like mechanical
disassembly). Someone with experience with the things would help even
more, of course, but I can't really expect to be that lucky.
I'm still working on pulling it apart to find out what let out that
unpleasant smell....
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