[TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 9 22:36:25 AEST 2018


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 at 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 at skeeve.com> wrote:
>
>> Which was ...?
>>
>> Warner Losh <imp at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine
>> smell
>> > > whenever I run it.
>>
>
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