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  1. Old flatbed

    If I didn't have the bad habit of starting 12 projects at once, I WOULD go warm the truck up, then
  2. Old flatbed

    I am not an expert on these, but, I am not sure you can "back off" from 16 heads, all the way to 2 As you increase the number of heads, I would think the machine overwrites firmware, juggles memory addresses, etc, changes encoding. While the engineers anticipated UPGRADES & allowed an upgrade...
  3. Fellers ordering anxiety

    i am not sure i am following you. are you saying grimco does "by the yard"?
  4. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    it is damn near impossible to NOT DAMAGE those shitty little surface mount devices. i know itt is a pain in the ass, but, i would not reuse one, unless you have access to a hot air rework station (and someone with a little experience using it. at my age, i simply can't do it any more. this is...
  5. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    first, take a tooth brush & flux remover or 91% alcohol & do a bit of cleanup there is no resistance, because whatever was smoking is open circuit now hopefully a small choke or micto inductor & it is not the printhead winding that smoked
  6. Fellers ordering anxiety

    the "buy by the yard thing" has a certain appeal i have bought some REALLY STUPID colors over the years a few of them i will never live long enough to use up.
  7. Cursed customer

    none of us can get rid of ALL of them, but culling the herd a bit, can hardly hurt. keeping the brighter ones is almost darwinian
  8. Old flatbed

    yes, the scrappers went to the trouble to unbolt and steel the heavy steel cover for the generator on my versalift bucket truck while it was at a friend's shop. they can be very enterprising
  9. Old flatbed

    in the 1970's i ess involved with a convenience store chain. thry had a dairy and bottling facility. thry bought a bottle sterilizer that weiged about 20,000lbs, was 12 ft in diameter and cost over $500,000. 3 years later the whole industry went to blow molded plastic bottles. we put the...
  10. Fellers ordering anxiety

    can you still buy by the yard?
  11. Old flatbed

    wouldn't the price of 16 heads be almost the Gross Domestic Product of a small country?
  12. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    it appears to me, that although amazon tries to convince you that they are just the logistics end of this, they are often the guilty party when i order "the real thing" & get Chinese garbage
  13. Fellers ordering anxiety

    i have never ordered from fellers (although i just opened an account) didn't they used to have a huge inventory?
  14. Cursed customer

    one day, they client i am thinking of REALLY annoyed me. i took the b to b yellow pages, opened to computer consultants CROSSED MY LISTING OUT and took 4 of those bulldog clips to keep the book open and laid it on his desk.
  15. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    there are lots of disreputable people in the semiconductor business decades ago we had a supplier who would restamp cheap power transistors, with a number compatible with the commercial line sony monitors. (selling a $3. part for $25. except they "smoked" in a day or two) i haven't seen anything...
  16. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    mimaki's are different the rolands and mutohs are much easier. i have almost no experience with mimaki & they have quite a bit of circuitry you don't see on the other brands i would like him to have someone local to have a look at it, even a tv repair shop, if they still exist much like when...
  17. Challenges and being grateful

    if true, i wish him a lot of luck.
  18. JV33 Bad TP8 HELP?

    i need to look at a real schematic, or, at least one of mimaki's boards SOMETHING is shorted now, by the sound of it, and you will only do further damage
  19. Cursed customer

    never had one of those? i really do have a bad sample group
  20. Never had this question asked before..............................................................................

    no, i didn't people who say the customer is always right, certainly had a better sample group than i have
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