TOM WALKER wrote in a message to THURSTON ACKERMAN:

TA>WC>When my printer wouldn't transport paper it turned out the drive belts
TA>WC>on the bottom front traction rollers had worn out with one broken.

TA>Good thought but motor isn't even attempting turning (when visiting
TA>family goes home I will probe with my meter and see it motor is getting
TA>juice or ???

TW> Had that happen to a Epson dot Matrix printer. Turned out it was
TW> an Unavaialble Circuit card. Again I concider it just too ond to
TW> even fool with.

You mean the "repair tech" only approached it from the standpoint
of replacing a whole board?  Heck,  I used to do component-level repair on
all that stuff.  In fact,  in my pile of scrap here I had an Epson printer,
 just did a number on that particular board a while back...

Of course,  tracing it to an individual component gets a whole lot easier
when you have some service data to work with.

Is there much market for repair of this stuff?  I didn't think that anybody
actually still used dot-matrix printers all that much any more.

Still have it?  What are you gonna do with it?

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