Ancient LaserJet-3 question

--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: Yep. Just did upper and lower feed rollers and transfer pads on my LJIIID. Ran about $30 in parts and a lot of labor/time (I haven't been inside a printer in several years and I had several false starts). Nice description about how to get to the upper roller. I wish there were an easy way to get to the lower transfer pad. I just about stripped the printer bare to do it (on the bright side, I did learn what goes where and what has to come off (and go back on!) first). Commonly called "circlips" on this end of the pond. I ran into one problem - some of those other components were worn enough that I accidentally put the D-shaped roller 180 degrees around. Yes, it's possible. No, it's not supposed to be possible. There is a small pin that is supposed to fit into one of the hard rollers next to the rubber rollers, but it moved around too much during disassembly and I got it wrong the first time. It caused a jam on pickup because the flat spot on the D wasn't down when the next stage went to grab the paper and it stopped dead. That's where I got mine. About $8 each. Even though the printer was $15 to me (complete with two paper trays, LocalTalk card, 4Mb memory card and Postscript cart), it was worth it to drop another 200% to get it working. It's slow, but works like a champ now. The only thing I haven't tested is double-sided printing. Does anyone out there have a 10BaseT card they can't use? I'd rather throw this thing on the network than waste my only print-server port on it. Thanks, -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/