Rubber rejuvinent- Fedron - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Dec 2000

Fedron is great. I have been using it for years. You can find it at a copier 
repair place. It works wonders with feed rollers but will dissolve some 
plastics so you want to be careful.

Copier places buy it by the gallon. I just take a small bottle to them and 
buy like 1/2 a pint. You want a glass bottle with a good seal, it is highly 
volatile. 

A little goes a long way. I use a cotton cloth, dip a corner in the bottle 
and apply sparingly. Rotate the roller against the cloth. It works on inkjet 
feed rollers along with laser printer feed rollers. It has been a long time 
but I think I even used it on typewriter platen rollers, first cleaning them 
with alcohol to strip the ink. I usually do it outside, I don't like solvents 
in the house.

Fedron works very well. I have no idea who makes it.

Paxton 
Portland, OR