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just had a bad clog that i had to clear up. mine was a uv curable varnish (running in the white lines. seems it cured up a bit in the translucent ink lines because of my "in hull" led's). i couldn't get anything to come out of the tube using a lot of vacuum and positive pressure. finally...

little confused with the isolation, the way it's typed. when you say swapped cables, you mean swapped data by crossing cables correct. maybe you could retype with 1) 2) 3) type bullets of each successive test. when you say loss of power, do you mean that the lights dimmed for an extended...

not sure what to search for, but this exact issue was discussed and solved on this board about 2 or 3 months ago.

i'm just going to buy the silver ink and put it in my 160sp.

compound mitered bases also, this is some nifty stuff you can do. this is a 3" deep compound mitered "look" base with aluminum top. cut with a single pass at an angle with the tracksaw. the edge left behind was so smooth and perfect that sanding with 600 grit would be a waste of time. very...

@centralsigns. trust me i know what i am talking about. i've worked with acrylic for over 20 years now as a substrate. and i've cut with everything. the tracksaw cuts a line so perfect with so little variance and zero chatter. if you are needing to polish the edge afterward, you need a...

i recently switched to triangle with refillable clear cartridges transferring the factory chip to the clears. ...am about to get the permanent chips for the set up. the triangle ink is superior to the SS2. it has a bit more retarder in it, i've noticed a pronounced reduction in issues like...

one more time then i'll leave it alone. acrylic is too bouncy at a light weight, and has too many heat and weight issues when it gets thick (extremely heavy). properly cutting acrylic is to cut it "dead wood" style. that is to not move the material, rather move the tool. anything other...

@jasonx you might have to save up for the white ink recycle conversion. one thing... this should be obvious. the first time i went back to my white ink cart to replace the ink, i didn't cover the little vent hole with my finger and the ink squirted about 10 feet across the room. so not that...

i got your white recycler right here.... :] that is quite a list of thing. i can't believe that the white shares a cap with anything. that would be a disaster. also, i was kinda jealous that my jv3 160sp didn't have a recycling system. then i thought..."wait a minute". this is a no...

that is why the festo and other tracksaws are so awesome. they are designed to spin backwards, plunge cut, zero allowance cut pont, perfect splinter free cuts, front and rear stops. it is a panel saw that you can carry anywhere in the shop. a sign maker's dream...

there's lots of ways to cut acrylic. i used acrylic exclusively in my work for about 10 years. the fool proof best way to cut it is with a router and straight/edge guide. the simplest way is to get an upcut sprial (keep the mask on, it has lubricants built into the paper that will keep the...

after rereading ... definitely clear coat that bamboo. just a few coats of precat lacquer or cab lacquer in a medium hand rubbed. it will be difficult to buff out with all the texture so i'd go semi, and sand with 600 only.

didn't the service manual sent have a machine parts explosion? also, when printing on very thick material, it is good to loosen the IR lens that sits to the left front of the carriage. just take out the small screw and let the IR sit higher in it's little holder. many times the heads clear...

if you are experimenting with some adhesives. the weld-on is good. but will create a brittle matrix. liquid nails is flat out a no. for that, use loctite universal T.A.C. (available at lowe's!) it is by far the most impressive one part adhesive i've every come across. it's very high...

when you seated the ribbons, did you take them out, inspect the ends and then replace? not sure about the board. but this vertical hit of color is definitely what happens when the head gets a command to print out of nowhere. ...the fact that it is all the colors would point to something...

there is a small panel on the left side behind your printer just behind the roller. you will have to take off a small piece of the stainless steel guide and the metal panel. you will see the four cap tubes coming down from above. then you will see to pumps mounted straight ahead. they come...

about two years ago, there was a video of a water based wide format printer made by HP that was a solid array. the printer was in an r&d lab. it was pouring prints out as fast as you would usually see paper advance itself from a machine. a 4'x4' took about 10 seconds. i went back to look at...

first diagnose if it is a clog in the line or a pump not pulling vacuum. just like you swapped dampers/lines to diagnose the ink issue. swap pump lines with a position that you know is supplying good flow/vacuum. do a head clean (soft) and observe it the black line flows at the new position...

the capping station is the box on a cam under the print heads. if you are using a paringly smaller amount of ink on one head, and occasionally it his overflowing, it is one of three things. a union that connects the cap lines (under the caps the tubes that carry ink to the pumps) is getting...