Re: Preemptive strike on 41 card reader Message #8 Posted by Tony Duell on 5 Sept 2001, 7:28 p.m., in response to message #1 by Ed
My experience is that if you wait until the roller has turned to glue, it's easy to remove the remains from the gear assembly (just wipe it off), but
you also have to clean up many other parts of the reader. If you do it before it's turned to glue, then
the reast of the reader won't need much cleaning, but it's a lot harder to clean off the remains of the old roller. I just did an HP67 where the roller was just starting to decay and I had to
spend quite a bit of time scraping the roller off the gear shaft.
It's up to you. If i get an HP card reader in for repair for some other problem I normally replace the roller anyway (unless it's obviously new or still OK). If it's my own machine, I replace the roller when it needs it.
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