I have a Documation D150 card reader that I am trying to make operational.
I fired it up today and ran a card through, only to have a big black
streak get "printed" to the card. I thought this was odd, so I opened it
up and found several problems.
The black streak was caused by the roller that pulls the card through the
slot. It's basically melted into a gooey ink-like mess. Actually, only
one side of it has melted. The other side is mostly intact, so I may be
able to just eliminate the melted side and still use this roller. It
looks like this:
__ __
| \/ |
==| |== <-- spindle
|__/\__|
^- one side melted
Then there is a rubber gasket that was around a disc that was situated
perpendicular to the way the card slides through. This roller dried up
and crumbled into several different pieces.
^
card goes in this way ---> and the rubber disk spun this way |
|
I think the purpose of this roller was to push the card against the guide
so that it goes through the reader straight.
Then there are two toothed belts driving cams from motors. One of them
got completely obliterated. The radial threads inside the belt got
wrapped around the drive cam and left a gooey residue on it. The other
belt is still in tact but very gooey, and is probably going to go at some
point as well. I was able to get this code off of it: SDP 6R6-055018C
I did a Google search but didn't turn anything up on this reader.
Does anyone know of a source to get replacement belts and parts for this
reader?
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Received on Thu Apr 11 2002 - 16:41:07 BST