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More info?)
Hi all,
I have/had the same problem, but my rollers didn't respond to the cleaning
and roughing, they were too far gone. As a quick and dirty fix, I cut four
pieces of car vacuum hose I had in the garage that had the right inside
diameter to fit tightly on the shaft, and jammed them on. The outside
diameter was too small however so the paper folding was worse than before,
about half the page lenght. Aftert a think, I got some self adhesive felt
material I had lying around and glued strips on each roller until I had the
right diameter to pull the paper through fast enough. In my case I needed
four pieces glued one on top of the other on each roller. The number was
found by trial an error. I kept adding until the roller could keep up with
the fuser output. This could be done with the door open and the paper fed
by hand into the fuser and the appropriate gear rotated by hand.
I still intend to get the proper rollers however, just in case the felt
starts to unstick.
By the way the reason I had the self adhesive felt lying around was from
repairing another problem in the printer, that was the issuing of blank
pages between printed ones from the optional sheet feeder. It seems that
the armatures of the solenoids in the sheetfeeder have a small felt pad or
something cushioning their operation and providing an air gap. They had
disintegrated and the sticky glue was causing timing problems.
Regards
Barry
"Quadrajet1" <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >Raymond, Yes it looks like you are correct, because the paper does not
> >pleat up when coming out the front. Do I clean or replace the set of
> >rollers to correct the problem?? Thank you. RD2
> >
>
> I usually replace them, but I have cleaned quite a few, and had no
problem.
>
> What I usually did was take the roller out of the printer, and take an
end
> with nothing on it, and put it in a drill. Spin the thing slowly, and use
> something like a Scotch pad soaked in alcohol and clean the rollers. With
the
> Scotch Brite pad, or steel wool, you are also taking the glaze off the
rubber.
> You want a nice flat black roller color when you are done. Get all of the
> grungy gray off the rollers.
>
> Raymond