2 Mar
2013
2 Mar
'13
1:36 p.m.
On 03/02/2013 12:16 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
As it stands it's perfectly fine for home use
doing stuff such as
printing out things from bitsavers, so I don't want to make it worse -
but OTOH it'd be useful as a general-purpose printer if the image
problems were fixable without pouring a bunch of cash into it.
Could the rollers simply be getting hard with age? If so, a treatment
with a xylene-methyl salicylate mixture may recondition the rubber
enough. Sold by the name "Rubber Re-nu", it's been known to typewriter
techs and the like for decades. But you can make your own easily
enough. It might help.
--Chuck