11 Aug
2011
11 Aug
'11
5:22 p.m.
On 08/10/2011 02:12 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Logically, there has to be a way to fill the toner reservoir, since that
was done at the factory. The plastic wasn't moulded with the toner inside
it :-)
From what I rememebr (and I may be mixing it up with the SX cartridge),
you can get the outer cassing off with the torx screws and some plastic
barbs, then the thing spits in half at the drum. One half is the waste
toner collector -- which you empty [1], the other is the toner reservoir
which you can somehow get inside and refill. If anyone is seriously
interested, I'll dig out a cartridge and take it apart.
I don't disagree, but nevertheless, in those days, this was a pretty
big business. We did a LOT of them, and so did a lot of other
companies. Refill kits, complete with a drill bit and little plastic
plugs, were available commercially all over the place. This was a
common and widespread thing.
There must've been some compelling reason to do it this way. I'll be
damned if I can figure out what it was.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Was it REALLY that much easier to poke holes in it,
instead of opening it?
You know, this is activating some very dusty neurons as this was the
late 1980s when we were doing this, but I don't recall there being any
other way to access the toner reservoir. Sure, there were torx screws
in there, but I don't remember any of them opening up the reservoir. If
there had been, we'd have done it; we refilled many hundreds of CX
cartridges.