;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Tony Duell typed:
>Oh, I've done worse. The Versatec V80 (aka PERQ electrostatic printer,
>aka ICL 6203) uses a black liquid toner that gets everywhere. And it
>tastes plain horrible as I found out when I unblocked the pump valves by
>the old suck-it-and-see method ;-).
Blech! My tongue is quivering just thinking about that!
>The only reason (AFAIK) that toner is explosive is that it's a very fine
>powder. Sawdust or flour is explosive for much the same reason. A pile of
>toner will not explode, not will it burn easily. A cloud most certainly will.
Yes -- think about it. Even on the older printers/copiers, the toner was
fuzed to the paper at around 105 degrees Centigrade. My HP LaserJet 5 (Yea,
I use it on my Atari 1040STf to keep this in scope) fuzes the toner at 200
degrees Centigrade. (No, I can't remember how to spell the other word,
dammit! ;^> Would you rather I convert the temps into Kelvin???? ;^)
If the stuff was explosive like gunpowder, laser printers would never work!
However, when you do your cleanup, make sure you do an extremely good
job... many types of toner available are magnetic, and conduct electricity
very well! If you even suspect a toner leak in a laser printer, don't plug
it in! Toner fuzed to the logic boards is "A Bad Thing (TM)".
>If you're taking the whole machine apart, relubricate it anyway.
>Oil/grease is a lot cheaper than new parts, and a lot easier to obtain.
Uh, yea. The sucker's already all apart -- there's virtually no added work
to put it back together right! (I'm an expert on this -- I reassemble stuff
all the time -- usually forgetting to follow this advice...)
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch_at_northernway.net | be your first career choice.
Received on Thu Jan 22 1998 - 22:57:18 GMT