Help! Any 860DP Gurus? I'm new to these, have broken gear

[thenumber1]

Hello all, I just picked up a Phaser 860dp free yesterday off C/L. She said she thought it was a problem in the transport.

Upon powering up, there are a number of strange sounds, and I have no idea which ones it's supposed to make, since I've never used one of these. It will get to the warming up part, then promptly restart itself. Preheat lamp is pulsating, and drum fan is off. (correct?)

I took off the side covers, and found gear #14 (Transfix gear, eccentric) to be missing 2 teeth. Upon further examination, I found gear #7 (head tilt cam gear) to have a spot with no teeth.

I'm assuming that these gears are broken, but perhaps one/both of them are supposed to have the bald spots. Maybe an 860 guru will know.


I've got alot of ink, and the printer looks to be in great shape, so I'd absolutely LOVE to get it going again, even if I have to use duct-tape and super glue.


Thanks very much for any help!

-Reuben

 

[thenumber1]

Oh, nevermind. I believe I've figured out that both gears are supposed to be missing those teeth. The transfix solenoid wasn't quite hooked onto the cam, so the gear was clicking, and such.


Now it has spit one page out on warmup that has ink splotches on it, and it shredded the second page in one of the upper corners. The scrap of paper is still somewhere inside the machine.

It's saying paper jam, open output cover, and I do, and there's nothing there. Closing it won't get it off the screen.


Any ideas? I'll keep the forum posted.

--Reuben

 

[Michael52x]

There is probably paper in the drum sensor at the left side of the drum. It is not a mechanical sensor, {no flag}
so slide a stiff piece of paper through it.
On the Transfix solonoid, use some tape on the flapper.

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[thenumber1]

Thanks for the advice, it turned out to be a scrap of paper in the exit preheat sensor. What a pain that was to get out! At least I learned a lot about the inner workings of this wonderful machine!

Now the Phaser is printing, even duplexing reliably, but there's a black bar missing in the middle of the page, and a small stripe of all colors missing on the edge. I've tried 'eliminate light stripes' twice, with no difference (well, maybe a little bit worse).


Still, I can't complain: I got a $4000 printer for free!

 

[Michael52x]

You may have to run a lot of solid color pages through to get out old ink.It can spoil. 50-100 pgs. might blow it out.
Else, it's a new printhead-$450-650

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[thenumber1]

I eliminated all problems but the total light stripe at the edge, so I have a clean 7.4" wide printing area. I'm very happy with it. I doubt I'll ever put a new printhead in it, (over 325,200 prints!) I'll just use it as it is.

I'm so very impressed by this printer that I will surely buy another (maybe better) one when this breaks!


Now I'm gonna start to run out of cyan, then black ink, so I'll have to find a cheap source. 3bay has the odd bargain lot. Anywhere else to check?


Thanks!