At 11:01 PM 6/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Symptom: Print quality degrading on the ASR-33.
>Analysis: Black tar like substance coating the print head apparently
>originating on the print hammer.
>
>I didn't look closely but was part #180502 the print head formerly made of
>black rubber? Seems like it.
Well, not the 'print head' persay, but the impact pad on the hammer is/was
black rubber, and yes they did/do degrade.
Being too lazy (so far) to cut a mold to make new ones, I've found that a
decent stand-in is a round stick on rubber 'foot'. Clean the hammer
thoroughly before afixing the new 'pad' to ensure good adhesion, and check
it regularly.
-jim
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Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 01:33:04 BST