Sellam,
There's a company in Florida (their name escapes me at the moment) whose
whole purpose in life is to repair Documation card readers. They repaired
the museum's and even loaned us another one to use for the IBM 1620 project.
If anyone has or knows about spare parts, they will.
I'm copying Lee Courtney on this mail because he was the one who made all
the contacts with the company and will have their name, address and phone
number.
Good luck,
DaveB
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: Documation D150 card reader
>
> 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?
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 08:55:07 BST