11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
1:04 a.m.
On 6/11/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
You can just throw your bad one away and get a new
one. There's a guy
selling 825 printers for $10 the each, NOS on Yahoo!:
That's one of the reasons I bought a handful of printer mechs from
Alltronics or Electronic Goldmine or one of those guys... spare gears.
The problem is that what I got was about 90% defective.
It's really a design flaw, I think, where the depth of the teeth in
the gear doesn't leave much material to be sturdy. Add a little
thermal expansion/contraction and *pop* one less gear.
That's why I'd like to find a source of gears - one replacement per
motor isn't going to be enough.
-ethan