8 Sep
2004
8 Sep
'04
4:39 p.m.
Hi der Mouse
I have a IIIsi that I fiddle with every now and then. I also
have an official service manual ( not much help for anything ).
I suspect that they think that anyone working on one of these
would be factory trained. Other than the occational cleaning
and a problem with the last toner/drum assembly, mine works
well. The only major failure I've had is the input card failed.
( a bummer since it was one of the harder to get parallel/serial
cards and not the easy to get ethernet cards ).
I've gotten some aftermarket RAM and put rediculously large amounts
of RAM in it. It also has Postscript, a duplexer ( I got from ebay )
and an envelope feeder ( also from ebay ).
Smoke is a bad sign. Good luck.
Dwight
PS
While in the service, I had the nickname of "Mouse". It
was because anytime anyone with gold braid on their cap
would enter an area that I was in, I'd find a piece of
equipment to hide behind. It was noted that I was like
a mouse.
Dwight
From: "der Mouse"
<mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Does the collective list wisdom include repair hints for an HP LaserJet
IIISi? I have one. Yesterday, I turned it on, same as a zillion times
before, and it didn't come up normally; it was making an odd ticking
noise. I went to see what was up and smelled that unpleasant smell
that usually means the magic smoke has been let out of something. I
turned it off immediately and have been spending the last hour or so
trying to figure out how to disassemble it to find out what's fried
(and try to estimate how user-replaceable it may be).
But it's being difficult, and my replacement capabilities tend to
operate at a coarser FRU grain than, say, Tony's :-); service doc would
help (even if only the kind Tony not entirely unjustly calls just a
boardswapping guide - it'd still help with things like mechanical
disassembly). Someone with experience with the things would help even
more, of course, but I can't really expect to be that lucky.
I'm still working on pulling it apart to find out what let out that
unpleasant smell....
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8 Sep
8 Sep
6:19 p.m.
Does the
collective list wisdom include repair hints for an HP
LaserJet IIISi? [...] smelled that unpleasant smell that usually
means the magic smoke has been let out of something. [...]
I also have an
official service manual ( not much help for anything ).
I suspect that they think that anyone working on one of these would
be factory trained. Other than the occational cleaning and a problem with
the last
toner/drum assembly, mine works well.
I had to replace the fuser on mine because I left it on 24/7 while
printing only occasionally (every few days). The fuser eventually went
bad under that treatment.
But now this...
I've gotten some aftermarket RAM and put
rediculously large amounts
of RAM in it. It also has Postscript, a duplexer ( I got from ebay )
and an envelope feeder ( also from ebay ).
Mine does PostScript, has since the day I got it. It doesn't have a
duplexer; it's not really something I've missed. Envelope feeder - I
rarely want to print more than one or two envelopes at once, so that
too is something I've not really missed.
Smoke is a bad sign.
Yes, I thought so. :( I didn't really see any smoke; I just smelled a
most disturbing smell (and my attention was attracted by unusual
sounds, which argues that the smell was probably not coincidental).
I've now got it apart to the point where I'm fairly sure the power
supply and logic boards are OK - nothing looks the least bit overheated
on them. And to be fair the smell smelt more like a motor overheating
(overheating seriously) than like a chip blowing.
I'm not sure whether this is more hopeful or less. :-/
While in the service, I had the nickname of
"Mouse". It was because
anytime anyone with gold braid on their cap would enter an area that
I was in, I'd find a piece of equipment to hide behind. It was noted
that I was like a mouse.
Heehee! I don't remember where my name came from (it dates back to the
mid/late '70s and its origin is lost in the mists of flaky long-term
memory), but it wasn't that. :)
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6:41 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:19:47PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
Mine does PostScript, has since the day I got it. It
doesn't have a
duplexer; it's not really something I've missed. Envelope feeder - I
rarely want to print more than one or two envelopes at once, so that
too is something I've not really missed.
I've just found a good use for the envelope slot - printing directly
on the paperboard inserts for SDLT tapes (modern 110/220GB descendant
of TK50). We go through about 150 tapes a year for our data... I
wanted to have printed inserts at the front of the cartridge, and
the pre-perfed ones that come with the carts are about the size of
an envelope...
Working out the raw Postscript to define the bizarre page size was the
hardest part.
-ethan
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