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That looks a bit like a SCSI cable - but I may be wrong... How on earth did it get torn? Mouse plague eaten it?

a photo?

I keep 3 metal clamps, like big bulldog clamps, that I hang from the front when starting - and you can move them up the 2 side edges as it comes out, until you have enough to put on the take-up reel. One in each corner and one in the middle.

We bought a faulty CG-SR11 a couple of years ago. It was a great plotter for just vinyl lettering. Provided you get Finecut software with it - otherwise it's useless. I later got the cropmark detection problem fixed, and really like the plotter. We have 2 old Rolands as well - I'd say this is...

It's just a the same bucket & sponge, I thought - with a fan on top that the 25500 didn't have.

Can you borrow a servo with encoder, from another machine - just plug it in, not connected to the drive belts - and see if the initialising etc seems to work

A signwriter friend with 10 years more experience than we have, got a (Roland?) DGT 5 years ago. Brand new. He said the best thing was when they finally found someone to take it off their hands. It was a total waste of money and effort, in their instance.

'drawing', and 'exactly' are contradictions, when talking of a belt buckle. That tells you it is only his pencilled rendition, and gives you scope to fix or improve legibility etc. It also sounds like you need to spend a bit of time learning about printing halftones, for your own knowledge &...

We're in Qld, and have a few cartridges and heads still going - but I can see the head cleaning cartridges as being a possible sourcing issue. There must be some way to get fresh paper towelling and wind up a new roll in an old head-cleaning cart...? (I have 2 spare - so am not in panic stages yet!)

Even if you make your own version, there is a knack, or a learning curve to using it well and efficiently.

We'll just have to keep it our little secret then - 'utilitarian' is an understatement for Workhorse! ;)

'Egyptian', I used to find mentioned most in older sign painting books... We just called them block letters, or plain block letters, as opposed to a thick-and-thin block letters. The nicest most practical computer font these days of that style that I like is Work Horse, from LHF, developed by...

Will the heater unit from a 25500 fit in the 260? P.S. what country are you in? I have a spare 260, and two 25500s for parts!

I didn't buy from Ebay... I just had a look there, and it surprised me! I do use our local supplier - or I did when the 792s inks and cleaning cartridges were available. But I used to get the 789 inks from Ebay for a better price than the supplier though...

I'm a tinkerer - hence still using the 260 - and still nurturing a 32 year old cnc router... but I was just asking for a bit of detail, re the procedures, that's all! I saw the price of 831 heads on Ebay - quite a bit more expensive than the old 260s used to be, but it got me thinking, I have a...

That would be a bit of work, sucking all the 831 incorrect half colour out, so muddiness or contamination don't wreck the tone of the refreshed heads... Do you manually refill using the dregs of old ink cartridges you've pulled apart?

The 831 heads have a totally different colour combination than the 792s... eg black isn't with yellow, and C/LC are not together... I'm not sure how they'd work now...

If you are lucky, there may be a mainboard fuse...

2D software is simpler that 3D, for 'designs' - not everything needs to be 3D... It's easier to start the design in Illy or Corel or other signage programs, and then save as Ai/DXF, and then open in a 3D program. Use Google to search the subject...

Flat paint = low surface energy - like trying to stick to sandpaper. I'd brush or roll on a coat of a clear gloss varnish or acrylic clear - but glossy - and then see if the vinyl will stick better to that.