blackcat4866
09-08-2022, 11:38 PM
54588
I suppose it would be best to start at the beginning ...
Last week I ordered up the fuser rebuild. The parts showed up, and when I contacted the customer they said they were getting a quality issue, repeats at a long interval ... and to me, look suspiciously like a mustache. It could conceivably be the fuser belt, so off I go.
Of course it's not ... it's the primary transfer belt. There's an outward dent in the belt surface and another hole both centered on the belt at opposite poles. We have a very very very very worn transfer belt lying about ... the only thing going for it is that it has no dents or holes. that same belt got replaced a month ago for C4505 errors when color calibrating, so I don't have much hope for it.
I got the transfer unit cleaned & belt on. Now the fuser is only warm and I can start rebuilding. When I removed the fuser front cover out drops a capacitor. Hmmmm.
54589
The only electronics in the front of the fuser is the fuser pressure motor, and I'm pretty sure it never had a capacitor, but there isn't any way to confirm that. Did I mention that the fuser still works, other than the bands in the feed direction of low-gloss?
Anyway, it boots to a C4505 like I expected, so now the transfer belt is on order.
On the way back I got to thinking: I think the transfer drive motor has a capacitor (or had a capacitor ... I would look if I was still there). Regardless of where it started out, I believe it was the capacitor tumbling around in the transfer belt that made the defects, then it dropped out into the top of the fuser cover.
Interestingly, that capacitor doesn't seem to be necessary. Transfer and fuser pressure motor run fine. I'll be sure when I get a decent transfer belt on there.
So where do you suppose this little guy came from? =^..^=
54588
I suppose it would be best to start at the beginning ...
Last week I ordered up the fuser rebuild. The parts showed up, and when I contacted the customer they said they were getting a quality issue, repeats at a long interval ... and to me, look suspiciously like a mustache. It could conceivably be the fuser belt, so off I go.
Of course it's not ... it's the primary transfer belt. There's an outward dent in the belt surface and another hole both centered on the belt at opposite poles. We have a very very very very worn transfer belt lying about ... the only thing going for it is that it has no dents or holes. that same belt got replaced a month ago for C4505 errors when color calibrating, so I don't have much hope for it.
I got the transfer unit cleaned & belt on. Now the fuser is only warm and I can start rebuilding. When I removed the fuser front cover out drops a capacitor. Hmmmm.
54589
The only electronics in the front of the fuser is the fuser pressure motor, and I'm pretty sure it never had a capacitor, but there isn't any way to confirm that. Did I mention that the fuser still works, other than the bands in the feed direction of low-gloss?
Anyway, it boots to a C4505 like I expected, so now the transfer belt is on order.
On the way back I got to thinking: I think the transfer drive motor has a capacitor (or had a capacitor ... I would look if I was still there). Regardless of where it started out, I believe it was the capacitor tumbling around in the transfer belt that made the defects, then it dropped out into the top of the fuser cover.
Interestingly, that capacitor doesn't seem to be necessary. Transfer and fuser pressure motor run fine. I'll be sure when I get a decent transfer belt on there.
So where do you suppose this little guy came from? =^..^=
54588