21 Dec
2000
21 Dec
'00
7:07 p.m.
I have at least 50 pounds of 486/ISA stuff, including a DX4/120, an
AMD 586/133, four motherboards, a chassis, about 20 1M memory modules,
sound cards, network cards, 4 VLB video cards (#9, C&T, Trident, etc,
several 2 meg), as well as some tape drives and a CD or two available to
whoever wants to pick them up in Santa Monica. You must take the whole
lot. No, not all of it is 10 years old. I'm just cleaning out the
closet, and my hands are just too scarred from dealing with VLB
insertion/extraction.
21 Dec
21 Dec
9:35 p.m.
New subject: WGS 6386 and MiniArray
I have high hopes my wife won't look in the back of my car. Today I filled
it with mostly stuff I hope will be interesting to me, or somebody else.
Two fairly complete looking AT&T WGS 6386 systems with mice and keyboards,
no clue on internal status, but I can hope. ;)
MultiTech MiniArray, doesn't look like a III either, just MiniArray, which
is a 486 of some sort I think.
Couple old macs IIcx, IIsi, a 14" display, a UPS, and a HP 550C with a
couple transformers. Doesn't sound like that much, but sure filled the back
of my old hatchback mustang.
9:40 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
10:41 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want
to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
I believe there is a brand called something like "Rubber Renews It", our ex
printer/plotter guy absolutly swore by the stuff. Unfortunatly he retired
last week after about 21 years of doing the job, it was *scarry* how much he
knew about printers!
I think the stuff I'm thinking of needs to be painted on. Personally an
aerosol kind of scares me.
Zane
11:03 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Mike Ford wrote:
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
If you find something that works let me know my 550C has the same problem.
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11:16 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want
to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
Well, you may recall that HP used what was basically an emery board on
the wheels of their DeskJets.
- don
11:32 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Don Maslin wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
On the 500 and 550 I know that they're a rubber like material. After a while
they fail to pickup the paper. On the earlier models they were stone like.
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Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I
want to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
Well, you may recall that HP used what was basically an emery board on
the wheels of their DeskJets. 
11:51 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
I got a couple of bottles of "Rubber Rejuvenator / Platen Cleaner" made by
Tech Spray. Their part number is 1612-2SQ -- 2 oz bottle. The
ingredients, according to the bottle, are D-Limonene and Chlorinated paraffin.
It helped the internal rollers on my HP card reader quite a bit, but did
not return the pick roller (which currently has a consistency somewhere
between silly putty and glue -- anybody got one of these things that hasn't
turned to glue yet?) to a usable state, though it even helped that just a
little.
Use at your own risk. It is marked "For professional or industrial use only".
Non Ozone depleting. 8-)
Can only be shipped via ground. I got my thru Newark Electronics.
Jay Jaeger
At 07:40 PM 12/21/00 -0800, Mike Ford wrote:
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want
to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
---
Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection
cube1(a)home.com visit http://members.home.net/thecomputercollection
11:55 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Since most of those rollers are Styrene Butadiene rubber or something
equally synthetic, a wipe with benzene might do as well as anything. That's
sold as rubber cement thinner. Back in the days when we drew
schematics/board layouts with pen and ink on a drawing board, I used it to
remove the tape residue from my drawing board. Art supply stores sell it
for about 5x the price of the Sanford rubber cement thinner under the
tradename Bestine, which may no longer be available due to its toxicity.
Spot removers of various types might be worth a look, too. I once thought I
needed to soften my printer's rubber surfaces in the paper path, and gave
the benzene/rubber-cement-thinner a try. It seemed to work and didn't do
any noticeable damage.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ford" <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 PM
Subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want
to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
22 Dec
22 Dec
6:42 a.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
Mike Ford wrote:
Any opinions on "rubber rejuvinent"? I want
to give all my printers a once
over during the holidays, and I've heard this stuff is just the ticket for
I used Rubber Renu on bill acceptor (paper money) straps and rubber parts.
Very smelly and will only extend the life a bit of a rubber part that most
probably needs to be replaced most of the time. It will stink up a closed room
maybe for a day or more...
I would not use it unless you absolutly have to -- if you have a misbeaving
rubber part thats unavailable or too expensive...
Claude
lazy pickup rollers etc. Web searchs have shown a couple different aerosol
products, but I think it also comes in bottles. Tomorrow I do some local
hunting at a couple big electronics parts stores. Anybody have experience,
or preferences?
12:12 p.m.
New subject: Rubber rejuvinent?
I would not use it unless you absolutly have to -- if
you have a misbeaving
rubber part thats unavailable or too expensive...
The sad story for really just about all old printers is that the most
minimal of real repair or parts, and they are junk not worth fixing.
However if they can be coaxed into another 15% of their normal life, then
often in a home setting that works out to years of service.
BTW anybody else mutter/think to themselves more than once a day, "this is
insane" and keep on doing it?
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