Digital BW, The Print

Martin and all,
 
Funny that the thread stopped suddenly.  I guess there is no easy answer
...
 
The same thing happened to me on my 2000P a few months ago.  I
accidentally forgot to mount the chip in a black refill cart, and all
tines were pulled up, when I had to (forcefully) remove the cart.
 
I took the printer head assembly apart and removed that little insert
connector.  Actually you don't have to take the head assembly apart I
found out later.  The culprit part is an ELCO 9501 connector, and it
would be good to have a few of these spare.  But I looked all over the
web for it and have not been able to find it so far.  So I resorted to
some fine mechanical skills I inherited and remade the tines that were
broken off, restoring the functionality of the connector, and the
printer has worked well since.
 
My guess is that the same connector is used on all chipped Epson
printers.  Is there anyone on this list who knows where to get this part
(ELCO 9501) ?
 
I have uploaded an image of my "remanufactured" connector in the files
section.
 
TigerShark
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Wesley [mailto:mwesley250@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:12 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Vacuum fill overfill and nubbins, was
After Market Chips
 
Jim,

Thank you for all the good tips and information on working with
refilling the chipped cartridges. Especially the soldering iron specs.
Greatly appreciated.

If you ever have the inclination, it would be great if you pulled all
your experience with this together and I could post it in the files
section.

Martin 


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