Minolta DI551 and Minolta DI5510

[copytechusa]

Hi everybody,
Someone is giving me a good deal on a few Minoltas DI551 and DI5510, but someone told me that there is an issue with a gear that it usually breaks after 5000/10000 copies.
Where is the gear located?
Is there a way to fix this issue?
Did Minolta Release a modification to fix this issue?
Any help woud be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Si@danwood]

Not heard of a gear breaking at all on these models let alone after a few thousand prints(have been working on these for 18 months now)

[Kmdurrin]

No idea. We have a bunch of these in the field, and I have yet to hear about this kind of problem. You should talk to your friend, and figure out exactly which gear he might be talking about.

[fixthecopier]

never heard of such. The only small gear I had a problem with was the tiny one on the dv box and that may fail on 1 out of 20 machines after a few hundred thousand copies.

[mascan42]

The only gear I've ever had problems with on these is the one-way on the decurl roller.

[poz31]

I don't know exactly which gear, but there is one on the dev unit that I had problems and I started replacing it every 5k ....until I did follow an advice to prevent overtoning....there is a huge post on this problem and couple of solutions