On 12/28/2012 1:58 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Rod Smallwood wrote:
WD40 will bring back a dried out ribbon at least
for a while.
Yes, and gum up the printhead.
Or, run a single ribbon on a TTY for 3 1/2 years (no budget) till you
could see it was almost white. I think the last few weeks it was mostly
printing oil on the paper.
maybe 3-in-1 in there too. when the ASR33 was rebuilt 1/2 pint of oil
was recovered from the felt in the bottom (just to see how much was
still there).
Jim