2 Apr
2019
2 Apr
'19
5:41 p.m.
On 4/2/19 3:04 PM, mike--- via cctalk wrote:
Looks like you're right! I'm pretty sure
it's a cleaner. Everything on
it seems to work well, once I figured out how it was intended to work.
Just had fool the tape optical sensor (BOT/EOT?) with a piece of paper
and it started up fine. It only seems to want to go 'slow' in reverse,
but that may be something to do with the lack of tape. I like the tape
counter a lot. It shows error codes when they occur, and is a dot matrix
style LED display (perhaps not true dot matrix, just something nicer
looking than a 7-segment display).
If you're going to use this thing, do check the carbide (sometimes
ceramic) cleaning blade. You want the edge to be sharp and smooth; if
it's nicked or chipped, it will end up doing more harm than good.
I suspect that a carbide insert for machine tools might be cobbled up as
a replacement, if required.
--Chuck