scotsman60
03-19-2011, 07:11 PM
I've just had a failure of the plastic gear on the end of the upper fuser roller on a 1050 EP.
The gear split in two - a section of about one quarter the size completely broke off.
Does anyone know if this is something happens occasionally or is this a freak failure?
I did replace both upper and lower rollers just a couple of weeks ago.
The rollers rotate quite freely by hand - although there is some tightness, once per revolution which I'm assuming is a flat spot on the lower roller caused by the machine sitting with the fuser rollers in the same spot for a couple of days.
I can't see anything obvious that would have caused this gear to get overloaded and fail.
Any ideas?
Doug
The gear split in two - a section of about one quarter the size completely broke off.
Does anyone know if this is something happens occasionally or is this a freak failure?
I did replace both upper and lower rollers just a couple of weeks ago.
The rollers rotate quite freely by hand - although there is some tightness, once per revolution which I'm assuming is a flat spot on the lower roller caused by the machine sitting with the fuser rollers in the same spot for a couple of days.
I can't see anything obvious that would have caused this gear to get overloaded and fail.
Any ideas?
Doug