On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- steven <tosteve_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmm, try saying that 3 times real fast...
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>
> Please post the source, if you find one. I have an Atari plotter and a
> Commodore plotter (model 1520) that use the same mechanism and the same
> pens.
I think I'm gonna be kicking myself for passing up on a literal pile of
these for the next 10 years. There was a RadioShack outlet store in
Houston with 100s of packages of these that I could have had for
$0.05-$0.10/ea or maybe $5-10 for the whole lot. I never got around to
picking them up, and the store seems to be gone now. As of 2-3 years or so
ago they still had all kinds of TRS80 parts and supplies. I imagine the
stock was dumped when they closed the store. At least I picked up their
stock of data cassettes and cassette interface cables...
> What I could _really_ use is a source of the gear that fits directly on
> the X and Y motor shafts. I have tried going to local RC car and model
> train shops, but they don't carry gears. This thread has come up
> before, but I still don't know how to sit down and accurately determine
> the physical characteristics of these gears to the satsifaction of a
> mail-order gear vendor. I can mic the shaft, I can count teeth, but the
> rest eludes me.
>
> I did buy a handful of plot engines from a surplus house. 80% had
> fractured gears. :-(
I wonder if there are enough of us with these plotters to justify having a
batch of replacement gears made somewhere?
-Toth
Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 00:31:00 BST