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How have you "rigged" it?

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We have all run into problems with our equipment. The jobs keep coming, we must keep producing, and the part is at least a day away.

Either your printer or your plotter, what are your more memorable rigs?

How many coat-hangers are holding your old junker together?

Rigging is what separates us from the monkey.

I cracked the cyan adaptor/manifold on my RS-640 angrily fiddling with it when the cart didn't tell the printer the ink ran out. Lost half the cyan nozzles.

After a few cigarettes and cussing I jammed a (ink stained) paper towel between the black and cyan dampers pushing the crack shut. Went on to print a 20 foot blue banner for walmart. Printed for days before part arrived.
 
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Had a cheap ebay plotter at the last place I worked that kept getting static problems.
Would freak out randomly and slice through the whole plot.

Rather than pay a few hundred for a static kit...

Got some cheap copper wire from a hobby store sanded the platen? off and drilled it in with a sheet metal screw then jammed the wire into the ground of a power strip. Problem Fixed for 2 bucks.
 
CS-SignSupply

CS-SignSupply

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Dave... Dave.... Dave.... :)

If I were a Dr, I would recommend you consider Valium instead of cigarettes...

Hope your new manifold install goes well. Call me if needed
 
MikePro

MikePro

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using the syringes from our trim cap setup, I keep refilling cleaning cartridges with homebrew cleaning solution for printer inkline/head flushes.
did it once in a pinch during some printer issue diagnosing/overhauling, and now I don't even bother buying new ones. I've since started using spent ink cartridges with the chip removed, flushed with cleaning solution and refilled and inserted into printer.
 
TheSnowman

TheSnowman

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I just sub it to Signs365 when my stuff takes a dump. I've been forced into fixing a few things on my JV3 over the years, but I wasn't ever comfortable with it.
 
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rubo

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Love this tread...Had this job to do - on a flatbed, but I'm too greedy to sub it or buy one, so I built myself one - from Mutoh RJ 900 - so now I'm a proud owner of a flatbed for a fraction of $$ - and actually have two more to convert - looks like conversion turns into another business in itself. :toasting:
 
cdiesel

cdiesel

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We had a pulley go out on our FB950 one time.. Pulley that moves the carriage was slipping on the shaft. Waited on HP for five days and FINALLY heard that the part was on backorder, with no sign of when it would be in stock. I told them they needed to find a demo unit, pull it out, and send it my way.

Then I took the pulley out of the machine and took it to a machine shop down the road. They drilled the pulley and tapped it for a set screw. Fixed in about 20 minutes and $10.

Don't know if that counts as rigging though, because my "enhanced" part is better than the stock part.

HP did have the pulley delivered the next day out of a demo machine, but we opted to keep my enhanced version installed. Still works to this day!
 
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rubo said:
Love this tread...Had this job to do - on a flatbed, but I'm too greedy to sub it or buy one, so I built myself one - from Mutoh RJ 900 - so now I'm a proud owner of a flatbed for a fraction of $$ - and actually have two more to convert - looks like conversion turns into another business in itself. :toasting:
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I guess the hardest part would be raising the heads and the rollers? Or just take out the platen? and put some plywood in its place lol
 
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rubo

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It's a bit more involved - moving the motherboard, cutting up some parts,
adding some...and some chewing gum to fool the sensors. And a ping-pong table. :toasting:
 
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