2 Feb
2011
2 Feb
'11
10:27 p.m.
On 3 Feb 2011 at 13:11, Terry Stewart wrote:
The dishwasher worked overtime but eventually I got
quite a few of
them working!
I picked up a NEC Spinwriter from a local law office that assured me
that it was working when they put it away in storage. They didn't
tell me about the family of mice that built a nest in it.
Unfortunately, there's a *lot* of space in a Spinwriter and the nest
was huge, with the usual thick layer of droppings and Mickey's urine
covering everything. Soap and water didn't make a dent, so I
resorted to Easy-Off oven cleaner, which worked very nicely. Rinse
again and again, use a toothbrush to get the remnants of the crud out
from between the IC legs and it looks a lot better.
The thing powers up with all of the right voltages coming out of the
PSU, but seems to have some difficulty in determining the carriage
position. I'll tackle that when I get 'round to it. If anyone has a
schematic for the 7000-series Spinwriter, a scan would be useful.
Cheers,
Chuck