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Good evening everyone.
I have a 2004 mp with this strange defect.
There is a strange noise coming from the paper exit.
The machine has about 45,000 copies
Ricoh Problem Mp 2004 - YouTube
It is noticeable from the 30 second onwards. This kind of ticking
What do you think about it?
Thanks for your support
Why are you focused on the finisher exit tray when the noise occurs well before it even starts moving.
That noise is almost certainly coming from near the actual machine exit section -if there was not a bridge unit and finisher installed. Sounds like a fuser bearing.
I've not worked on this particular unit, but heard similar noise on the 30ppm and up xx03 series
Running outputs in SP mode for drum/ transfer, and fuser (with it removed). That should help isolate the issue.
If this is about the knocking sounds, that's probably a dry ball bearing contact surface (ball bearing->press roller shaft).
Run the fuser motor in I/O mode to help narrow it down.
It does sound like a fuser bearing.
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Sounds like the fusing sleeve to me.
Take the fuser apart, put high temperature grease on the inside and outside races of the pressure roller bearings.
I'd swap the gears as a set. Sometimes you can clean them up but if the bearings have been damaged it might last a year, month, etc
Or find which one feels bad and get it swapped
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it does not seem to me a known noise of the paper output, it seems to me rather the fusing gears (already suggested above mbz6301) that are about to go, or at least the bearings that need a syringe of grease between the roller and the bearing - p.s. if you try the fuser output check, remove the waste toner box, so the lamps do not turn on, otherwise the sleeve could be damaged! ... but I think you can see it just with your eyes if you look at the gearsOriginally Posted by printertnc
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I agree with some of my colleagues. It is similar to the noise of bearings, when they are dry.
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