The blog of Mike (such as it is).
Maintaining the manufacturing equipment
This is all done on the Mutoh ValueJet 1204AS we use in one of our businesses. The print feed motor failed, and for good measure, we intended to replace the print feed motor’s encoder (which provides feedback to the machine about the movement the motor generates).
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- The big expensive printer broke down yesterday. Oh no!
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- But fear not! The replacement parts were overnighted, and the problem is user serviceable.
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- Here is a mugshot of the culprit: the “Print Feed Motor”
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- The old motor is removed, and fortunately the new one looks just like it.
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- There is a related part (called an “encoder”) that also should be replaced. But they sent us the wrong part and it won’t fit!
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- Since our supplier sent us the wrong “encoder” wheel for our machine, we had to clean up the old one and hope for the best. That’s a combo of ink powder and pulverized rubber from a motor belt near it in the machine.
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- The new print feed motor is installed!
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- Everything is installed back and working great! The print jobs continue.
So I did all this earlier today, pausing only to shoot pictures for the blog (and just in case I had to show a real technician what I had done to it later). Naturally this is pretty scary because the machine way expensive to repair or replace. But it went really well.
Next I plan to try some home surgery. There’s a kit for that called “Suture Self”. (thanks to my dad for telling me that joke when I was a kid)
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