It works. For the ribbon type printers, it gets the ink moving enough to get a second or third use from the cart. Print quality was dicey, but for listings to do debugging on a dot matrix printer, quality wasn't the name of the game. Just don't use too much...

Warner

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:
You can supposedly revive dried out ribbons by soaking them in WD40. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
Which was ...?

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink ribbon. :)
>
> Warner
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine smell
> > whenever I run it.