Re: Replacement for broken 1541-II disk drive levers ?

Hi,

Thanks for all your inputs - currently I have no access to a 3D printer 
- so I'm currently looking for something that'll be able to 
(permanently) grip around the metal lever pin inside the drive.

Any ideas ?

/Uffe


On 2012-11-24 18:49, geneb wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Miika Seppanen wrote:
>
>> 24.11.2012 11:43, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl kirjoitti:
>>> The last time I tried (not long ago and with a machine about 20 times
>>> the price you mentioned) the printed parts were still way off in
>>> terms of both surface quality and durability when compared to the
>>> off-tool, injection moulded ones. Sure, it may work but unless
>>> something has dramatically changed, the printed lever will both look
>>> and feel out of place /me thinks.
>>>> There are lots of little fiddly parts like this on Commodore equipment.
>>> Like the notorious sprocket wheels on the stepper axis of 1520.. I
>>> have several of the 1520s, all broken in the very same way :-(
>>
>> My DPS-1101 which I have owned since new has a broken gear in its
>> paper path - obviously the plastic gets more and more brittle during
>> the years, so there will probably be more and more these issues with
>> mechanic parts. I guess nowdays the reasonably priced 3D printers are
>> not yet up to the task to make these kind of parts, but when I some
>> day get to fix this machine the situation will probably be different.
>
> The hobbyist 3D printers have pretty much overtaken the production
> quality of commercial filament fed printers.  The model I'm getting has
> reliably produced objects with a 90 micron print layer and some of the
> cartesian printers (Makerbot, RepRap, etc) have gone down to as little
> as 50 to 10 microns.
>
> If you have the specs on the gears, it would be pretty simple to print a
> few and see how they hold up.
>
> g.
>
>
>




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