jv33 head replacement ::IMPORTANT::

[nashvillesigns]

well, that was my Saturday. Bought the head friday night, went in saturday morning, swapped it out and discovered something very important:

EVERY YEAR YOU SHOULD REMOVE THE HEATER VACUUM DECK AND CLEAN THE FAN BLADES!!!!!
this procedure is stupid simple. your fans will thank you for it. and you give yourself less chance of head strikes.
...mine were clogged to the gills.

Long story short, somebody didn't check the edge guides and it decided to meet and greet the printhead during operation.
worst noise i EVER heard in my life.
i had to take the edge guides off and fix them. this prompted a removal of the platen deck and wow. was i amazed!



if anybody wants a write up, reply!!!



-Mosher

 

[Commando]

Thank you for that! Something that has not ever been mentioned.. I am going to do this next time I clean er' up.
No need for a writeup.. For me anyways..

 

[Samurai_Screwdriver]

Hey Chris,

I've never pulled up the platen on a JV33 myself so I'm interested to know if there were little spacing shims underneath there? I once performed a similar operation on an old Mimaki UV rollfed printer and discovered that there were a million little pieces of shim stock - what a pain it was getting those all back in the right places to get the platen flat and level!

 

[Whyte D.]

We're actually getting ours serviced today. I'll mention this to the tech guy. Thanks!