One of the Toshiba techs I use to chit-chat with on the TABS bulletin board, until they trashed it at the first of the year,
gave me the name of a company they've been using for oil. The TABS oil always dries out.
Shin-Etsu Silicone : Fluids
I don't remember the part number, but I can get it if needed.
I've been using it for the past couple months with good success. I'm also doubling the amount, that Toshiba usually uses.
One thing we've been doing, with all of the dried out fusers, is to force the super sleep mode. Most of our 85 series machines
are in schools. They sit idle most of the time, so, to make sure they don't run all night, we set the super power saver to four
hours in the 08 codes (you can only set them to 60 minutes in admin mode) 08-9112 to 21.
If the machine sits for 4 hours, it goes to sleep, cutting the standby heating of the machine. Most of these machines they
use as printers anyway, so by the time they send the print job, go to the teachers room where the machines usually are, it
has already come out of sleep and printed the job anyway. Haven't had any complaints.
Most of our dried out fusers were late summer/early last fall. With all of the schools shut down, most of the oil just evaporated
I guess. That or the machines weren't powered off during the shutdown and just sat there running.
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