19 Jul
2006
19 Jul
'06
6:16 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 7/20/06, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
It's common that either the roller or the "transfer pad" (the cork)
get glazed with age and use. One can buff them up with emery cloth
for the short term, but the only long term fix is to replace them.
You can also use "Rubber Renu" to rejuenate the rubber roller -- until
it wears too far. I offered several NOS LJ3 roller assemblies here
a month or two ago, no taakers. :-/
It's also been throwing 13 Paper Jam errors...
A paper jam means that sensor didn't detect / not detect paper as
expected. The most common cause of this is that the printer didn't pick
up paper from the paper tray, due to a warn pickup roller. That's the
D-shaped roller on the spindle above the paper tray, under the scanner
block. Replace the roller (the roller alone is cheaper than the complete
spindle, and it trivial to change, at least if you had a mis-spent
childhood repairing ASR33s!), and the cork (?) pad that holds the paper
against it. ISTR paying about $15 for a set ($7-ish for each
component) as opposed
to something like $50 for one spindle with roller. I revived a $15
IIIsi for under $50 with a pair of new rollers and a pair of new pads.
Well worth it.
Ouch! I guess I must be spoiled... I see working LJ3's (the
damn things are REALLY hard to kill!) discarded pretty
regularly.