Kyocera FS-C8520 transfer belt cleaner problem

[blackcat4866]

Any good idea to fix the plastic clip back on belt? It holds the cleaning assy.
Broken clip on pic:
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Btw I had a spare used belt, but when I was getting ready to install the belt, the lift handle broke and belt shattered on the floor FML...

If you have 1mm of space underneath the corner of the belt assy, you could cut a piece of 1mm thick black plastic to layer under the two parts, clean all of the surfaces with alcohol, attach with two part epoxy, then shape the resulting edges. Please excuse the poor quality of the illustration:

[rapo_tech]

I wonder if anyone has tried to install a 10k resistor across the big cap(s) to ensure that they can't build up such a charge, and so they drain when powered off?

If printer is working, doesn´t the resistor overheat?
Yesterday when I was replacing those caps, they were charged and when I shorted 1 of them exploded
I think that I switched off machine and then pulled power cable. Should have just pulled power cable so they could discharged...

If you have 1mm of space underneath the corner of the belt assy, you could cut a piece of 1mm thick black plastic to layer under the two parts, clean all of the surfaces with alcohol, attach with two part epoxy, then shape the resulting edges. Please excuse the poor quality of the illustration:

Yep I was thinking something similar.. I hope collegues find a used belt, so i dont have to mess with the epoxy

[sparkycivic]

If printer is working, doesn´t the resistor overheat?

With a sufficiently high value of resistor, the dissipation as heat will be low enough to be safe, yet high enough to dissipate the stored energy within a reasonable amount of time after powered-off. It is a normal feature of just about all mains voltage power devices such as wall warts, appliances, light bulbs, etc to have a high value resistor across the high voltage caps.

It would hopefully also be enough to clamp the crazy high voltages that seem to find their way into the caps when the power is noisy. That is admittedly happening inside some of the power supplies of the FS-C 85xx and TA-255-like device lines, per the bulletin.