Ancient LaserJet-3 question

Gee! You must have seen this a time or two, Tony. I started out with one LJ-III that was making a bit of noise, emanating from the upper right rear region of the printer where a rubber nipple apparently involved in paper transport protrudes into the accessible innards. I bought the two other LJ-III's on the off chance that one or the other would have the necessary parts to make the noise go away. The off-chance that one or the other of these could be induced to work was of interest as well. I paid $4 each for these printers, so there's no great loss if they don't work out. (The toner cartridges weigh nearly what a full one weighs, if that's any indication.) Unfortunately, they lack paper trays. The cost of the various repair kits, combined with the somewhat evasive information offered along with them, and the restocking charges associated with them, in case they don't help, make it unattractive simply to repair these printers. I remember paying $300+ for a logic board when I plugged the printer cable into a PAL programmer board on the back of a utility machine ... which I only did once, by the way, but to TWO printers, and these printers apparently have good logic boards. My understanding is that this fuser/AC PSU problem is one of the more common failure modes, though. Hopefully I can get at least one of these two "parts" printers running. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Duell" &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Ancient LaserJet-3 question <snip> > -tony > >