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Arthur Entlich
Oh yes, I certainly recall the silicone greases used for damping tone
arms on turn tables. Still have some of that goop around here
somewhere, and never was able to get my DUal tone arm to drop at just
the right speed ;-)
I also owned a number of Panasonic/Roland dot matrix printers, and
overall they were pretty reliable machines. I remember buying 3rd party
ribbons back then (the Panasonics were like $22 each up in Canada), but
the problem was the cheaper ones would get all distorted from the
printer pins and then they would hit the paper and smear. Also the darn
weld would fail after a few reinkings, which the originals tended to
hold together much better. I think I still have a case of the ribbons
somewhere here. I tried all sorts of reinking methods from the WD 40
approach to buying a bottle of ink and making a mess trying to
distribute it to the ribbon.
The ones I used had a small reinking wheel in them, and I finally
figured the best approach was to just when it with ink and allow the
ribbon to get reinked from it.
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arms on turn tables. Still have some of that goop around here
somewhere, and never was able to get my DUal tone arm to drop at just
the right speed ;-)
I also owned a number of Panasonic/Roland dot matrix printers, and
overall they were pretty reliable machines. I remember buying 3rd party
ribbons back then (the Panasonics were like $22 each up in Canada), but
the problem was the cheaper ones would get all distorted from the
printer pins and then they would hit the paper and smear. Also the darn
weld would fail after a few reinkings, which the originals tended to
hold together much better. I think I still have a case of the ribbons
somewhere here. I tried all sorts of reinking methods from the WD 40
approach to buying a bottle of ink and making a mess trying to
distribute it to the ribbon.
The ones I used had a small reinking wheel in them, and I finally
figured the best approach was to just when it with ink and allow the
ribbon to get reinked from it.
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