Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

[razor]

I was replacing 3 PCU's on a MPC 4500 today and to my surprise when i opened the blk PCU boxes to repl the color units, they apoxied the connector to the plastic frame of the pcu, instead of a small screw, so you cannot remove wiring and re-string the old connetor in for the color unit. Not sure if this is a new standard but out of the 13 pcus i have in the shop 8 of them were apoxied. Thanks alot ricoh. If you want people to buy your over priced color units at least make the charge roller availible in the Parts manual.

[df3036]

Pretty sure you can just file down the corner of the connector that has the metal bar in it.

[Shadow1]

The metal pin actually makes it easier to snip the corner with a good sharp pair of wire cutters - cracks right at the pin and you can pop it out then trim it up a bit. It doesn't look as pretty as when done with a file, but not like anybody's gonna see it.

My supervisor has been getting pressure from Ricoh Corporate about the parts budget, and at the same time he's gotten a bunch of questions about why techs are using more than one black drum at a time on these units. Are they really that stupid? Or do they assume we are?

[anka monki]

speaking of stupid.. whats with the 'Auto Color Select' function that keeps turning up model after model. Most if not all brands have this function but ricohs is specially designed to give a shit copy. It should be called 'Auto Shit Copy Select". whats the logic ?, thnx, off my chest now

[razor]

i know u can file it, but in the field i just found it so nice and easy to swap wiring, now your spending more time getting the connector to fit. I will admit i am a lazy man, it just doesnt seem logical to glue the connector in.

[CANCOUNTRY TECH]

Buy your self a big ass file it takes 30 seconds max once you get the hang of it.We get shit off our supervisor if we use the colour drums.

[Venom]

speaking of stupid.. whats with the 'Auto Color Select' function that keeps turning up model after model. Most if not all brands have this function but ricohs is specially designed to give a shit copy. It should be called 'Auto Shit Copy Select". whats the logic ?, thnx, off my chest now

Auto Color Select doesn't do any more than automatically switching between B/W and Color copies. If copy quality is poor, then there are other issues.

[Shadow1]

Auto Color Select doesn't do any more than automatically switching between B/W and Color copies. If copy quality is poor, then there are other issues.

I'm calling BullShit on that!

Go to any color copier make an autoselect copy, then make a full color copy - there SHOULD be no difference, but the autoselect is horrible - always has been on any Ricoh machine that has this "feature"

[Venom]

[QUOTE=Shadow1;119888]I'm calling BullShit on that!

LMAO

[tmeikle]

We've seen this prob as well with the colour/black pcu's... takes a bit more time but all we've been doing is swaping the guts of the black PCU to the frame of the colour PCU... works well, and we don't have to worry about breaking the connector at the back of the frame.

[tittalwax]

Re: Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

We've seen this prob as well with the colour/black pcu's... takes a bit more time but all we've been doing is swaping the guts of the black PCU to the frame of the colour PCU... works well, and we don't have to worry about breaking the connector at the back of the frame.

Does anybody know the part number for the connector at the back of the frame?

[Tonerbomb]

Re: Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

We've seen this prob as well with the colour/black pcu's... takes a bit more time but all we've been doing is swaping the guts of the black PCU to the frame of the colour PCU... works well, and we don't have to worry about breaking the connector at the back of the frame.

Does anybody know the part number for the connector at the back of the frame?

Can't get it as a separate part, Ricoh sells the whole drive unit with the connectors.....

[Lagonda]

Re: Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

Wait until you have to do a full PCU change on the new Ricoh '03 range, you can't swap the K with the colours and the are completely different from the earlier and cheaper models. I'm waiting for the scream to come from the top floor of why our expenditure on drums has quadrupled.

[Athlontini]

Re: Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

The metal pin actually makes it easier to snip the corner with a good sharp pair of wire cutters - cracks right at the pin and you can pop it out then trim it up a bit. It doesn't look as pretty as when done with a file, but not like anybody's gonna see it.

Glad I'm not the only person that does it this way. When I was first getting trained on the color line, there were guys telling me they used a little hand dremel to file off the corner - zzzzip - and pop the PCU in. My way's pretty quick too.

[Iowatech]

Re: Stupid Ricoh MPC2500 - 4500 PCU's

I was replacing 3 PCU's on a MPC 4500 today and to my surprise when i opened the blk PCU boxes to repl the color units, they apoxied the connector to the plastic frame of the pcu, instead of a small screw, so you cannot remove wiring and re-string the old connetor in for the color unit. Not sure if this is a new standard but out of the 13 pcus i have in the shop 8 of them were apoxied. Thanks alot ricoh. If you want people to buy your over priced color units at least make the charge roller availible in the Parts manual.

If the old PCU that you are replacing has the connector with the screw, you can still use the old PCU's wiring on new black PCUs. Just remove the connector from the new PCU, bore a hole in the rubbery stuff where the pin on the right hand side of the connector was (make sure the hole is small enough that the screw threads will bite), and then just install the wiring from the old PCU as usual. The connector will wobble around a bit more than usual, but it will still connect up correctly. At least it has the times I've tried this.