Teletype Model 43 ribbons (and old ribbons in general...)

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 20:15, Fred Cisin wrote: Ink being a pigment and some sort of a solvent, when a ribbon dries out there's plenty of pigment there already, it just needs a bit of solvent. The one time I tried it the results were surprisingly good, for a while. Then pushing my luck a bit further I repeated the application. I was using a rebuilt printhead at that time and the front face of it got loose, the company I was getting them from stood behind it. I still have one of their rebuilds in my old Oki 92. :-) And besides which, I'm not aware of any ink available in spray cans like that, is it? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin