Homebrew PCBs

Turpentine works quite well, and is probably easier to find.  

At an old job one I the things I had to do requarly was dismandle the lasers
and clear the rollers.  We used to print labels - lots of labels - and
eventually the adhesive would build up.

Turpentine cleaned the rollers quite well, and removed a slight bit of
rubber, would probably soften up old ones too.

Chemists would have oil of wintergreen.  It's one of those things that's
supposed to stop arthritis pain, etc.

Tony


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Myc Holmes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:32 PM
> To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Tip: Repairing a HP LJ-III pickup roller.
> 
> Try wintergreen flavoring from the grocery store. The main 
> ingredient is oil of wintergreen.
> 
> Myc
> 
> On 8/22/06, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:29:04 +0200, YD <yd_br@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The result? Perfect! The roller has a nice rough rubber 
> surface at 
> > > what seems to be the original diameter. It's picked up 
> every single 
> > > sheet for months now without failure. Even better, when and if 
> > > needed I can do it again and still have the cake, er, the 
> original 
> > > part.
> > > - YD.
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > That is a good Tip for me, i recently bought a replacement for the 
> > upper pickup roller (very cheap on ebay nobody wanted it), but this 
> > way i can also fix the lower roller on my IIID.
> >
> > I tried sanding the original roller but it never worked any better, 
> > glycerine did no good either,
> >
> > The "cracks" are "stock" with those rollers, they are there as 
> > friction ridges (like one your hands and feet) to make it grip. But 
> > the surface wears down and goes shiny as you observed and it just 
> > won't work properly any more.
> >
> > BTW someone recently suggested a strange chemical to do just this 
> > roller repair, it was called something crazy like oil of 
> wintergreen 
> > or something. Now my chemicals shop sells sea foam dust and dragon 
> > blood but i don't think they have heard of that wintergreen 
> stuff. I 
> > looked it up and it is methyl salicylate, but that don't show up on 
> > their inventory list either, maybe it has another name i'm 
> not aware of.
> >
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