23 May
2017
23 May
'17
11:51 p.m.
On 5/23/2017 11:37 PM, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
We WD40'ed ASR33 ribbons at the Computer Mini lab @UMR till the
material
was white and we were printing with residual WD40 on the fabric. On a
rebuild of the machine in question, we drained off 1/2 pint of oil from
the felt in the bottom, from both the ink operation, and just making it go.
Not sure why they didn't buy a new ribbon, but once it was rebuilt after
4 years of use, it printed fantastic quality print with a new ribbon.
I don't know the formulas for ink but it was persuaded to continue
printing with cloth / silk ribbons I've seen then and since.
thanks
Jim
Since
those are not easy to dig up now, what options are there? Also,
because there's often plenty of pigment, what oil/solvents are good to
wrest some of that pigment back out of a dried ribbon?
That is a question I'd
like to determine. Google was little help outside of calls
to try WD40.