We're the 1520 plotters only sold in Europe? Terry Raymond On Jan 28, 2018 1:02 PM, <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl> wrote: > > > On 2018-01-26, at 20:21, vossi <vossi@ceffy.de> wrote: > > > > I have three plotters here and all of them have this broken motor gear - > > thats a common problem. > > I think it's because it is a cheap plastic gear. > > It's probably because it - kind of - shrinks with age. > > > Atari has a plotter with the same ALPS plotter inside for the > 800xl/600xl. > > > > I repaired the best of my plotters with this gear and it worked > perfectly. > > But I don't know how I fixed it - I think I glued them with cyanacrylat. > > I thought of that too but first needed to devise a method to widen the > hole precisely, some microns... also, it is probably risky in the sense > that it might "stick" before you move it into correct position. > Alternatively I thought of heating the gear up (in oil?) so that it expands > enough to be placed on the axis and it would then contract and "mount > itself" firmly. Haven't tried any of those approaches though. > > -- > SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/ > > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2018-01-28 21:00:02
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