FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

[Hansoon]

FS-C8525MFP, Maincounter 224.407, color 055.897, B&W 168,510
asking for Maintenance Kit A.

I'm an Indy doing 95% KonicaMinolta and just a very few Kyocera equipment.
What is maintenance kit "A" for this machine? What does it consist?

Thanks

Hans

[bsm2]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Maintenance Kit MK-896A
for Kyocera FS-C8520MFP / FS C-8525MFP
MK-896A contains Drum Kit (K), Developer Kit (K), Fuser Unit, Transfer Belt Unit, and 2nd Transfer Unit

[JR2ALTA]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

you can reset sim 251 to clear. set 250 to 0 or 999999 to never see again.

[Hansoon]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Thanks guys.

Hans

[copier tech]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Thanks guys.

Hans

Best not to reset the count if you're not the replaced kit A

Simply extend the life an extra 50k or so as you will need to replace this kit eventually.

[JR2ALTA]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Best not to reset the count if you're not the replaced kit A

Simply extend the life an extra 50k or so as you will need to replace this kit eventually.

I disagree. This is not a high profit, production machine. Some of those parts will last the entirety of its life. Best to replace components as needed.

But good to have kit on hand so costumer doesn't have downtime no matter what it needs.

[Hansoon]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Customer is using for 95% of the time only K. Colors are not important at all and coming out good but K ist smearing as if the cleaning blade fails. Are there any aftermarket cleaning blades and drums or complete K-Drum units for this machine available?

Hans

[blackcat4866]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

... Are there any aftermarket cleaning blades and drums or complete K-Drum units for this machine available?

Hans

Not that I'm aware of, but a OEM black drum unit won't cost that much. Make sure the primary transfer belt is cleaning. That's this machines biggest flaw. =^..^=

[Santander]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Agree with Blackcat to check the cleaning of the transfer belt. This unit also has had the bad cleaning pipe for the transfer belt which backs up the cleaned toner in the cleaning brush and then gets deposited on the transfer belt. You can check if it is the auger which is on the left side of the unit by removing the devs and drums and the auger drive shaft, if turning the auger drive by hand you can feel if the gears are skipping or you observe that the gears do not rotate in both directions, you have a bad auger. See the attached bulletin. TA C2551 Procedure to remove transfer cleaning pipe.pdfIf it is the cleaning pipe not only will you have to replace it but our experience has been you will also need to replace the transfer belt. Once the cleaning brush gets clogged it will continue to clog even after changing the cleaning pipe

[blackcat4866]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Agree with Blackcat to check the cleaning of the transfer belt. This unit also has had the bad cleaning pipe for the transfer belt which backs up the cleaned toner in the cleaning brush and then gets deposited on the transfer belt. You can check if it is the auger which is on the left side of the unit by removing the devs and drums and the auger drive shaft, if turning the auger drive by hand you can feel if the gears are skipping or you observe that the gears do not rotate in both directions, you have a bad auger. See the attached bulletin. [ATTACH=CONFIG]45221[/ATTACH]If it is the cleaning pipe not only will you have to replace it but our experience has been you will also need to replace the transfer belt. Once the cleaning brush gets clogged it will continue to clog even after changing the cleaning pipe

Usually because the gear with the "D" bore at the rear of the cleaning auger spins on the "D" shaft, or breaks off the auger shaft. It's not so easy to see why the gear is spinning free of the auger. =^..^=

[Hansoon]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Thanks for that valuable info Gentlemen.

Didn't do the Kit A thingy yet but in the meantime machine is asking for a new waste toner container though the one in the machine is only half full. Is this related to the aforementioned problems with the cleaning pipe auger?

How is the machine detecting a full waste toner container?

Hans

[blackcat4866]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

There's a photointerrupter that shines light through the neck of the bottle. If your enduser dumps the bottle, the neck of the bottle will become dirty on the inside (and outside), and indicate a full bottle. The photointerrupter may get toner in it. You can brush out the openings in the photointerrupter. =^..^=

[Tom]

Re: FS-C8525MFP asking for Maintenance Kit A

Yea, these machines only have a 200k pm cycle, for the price it's not very efficient but I do like how easy they are to replace everything. I've never seen one go over by much though, usually barely makes it. Copy quality issues and the bearings in the fuser start making noise.