13 Jan
2013
13 Jan
'13
9:55 a.m.
You may have
noticed that I have been absent for a while. The reason is
that my home internet access is down, due to problems at the ISP end
(I think). I am reading this in an internet cafe...
Hope your internet connection is restored soon! Picked up a very dirty but nearly entirely
functional HP 9810A recently,
with 9865ACassette Memory drive. While I wait for parts to repair the
9810's mag card reader and printer to arrive, I've been working on
cleaning up the9865A.
Are you a member of HPCC? The reason I ask is that I wrote a
series of
articles for the HPCC magazine on repairing this series of machines, and you
might find them interesting. I would offer to send them to you, but of course
there's no real way to transfer them at the moment. interested in seeing your articles. I've found a
couple of things
I will see what I can do...
attributed to you on repairing the printer and the
card reader, and I'll
be attempting repair of the printer as soon as the cold-shrink tubing I
ordered arrives. (Platen is basically tar at this point.)
I do explain this repair in the articles. There are a lot of little bits to
remove and refit....
It is almost working (and the few rubber parts in
it seem to be good) --
I would strongly recomend replacing the 2 'tyres' on
the drive wheels. They're
size 119 O-rings IIRC, and are not hard to get.
I assume the solenoid isn't burnt out ...
I will definitely be checking that. I need to trace the wires back to
where they connect to the logic board first.