All, Finally got an AIM-65 I've been meaning to sell wrapped up and listed: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275425213541 This one was used in some industrial control application and had custom ROMs in it when I received it. It was also missing the plastic display mounting blocks, so a friend of mine measured his and 3D printed replacements. The displays were gone through and a number of bad ones replaced. The main board had to be basically entirely resocketed. The flex cables to the display board were of course crumbling, so they were replaced with two new Nomex jumpers. The printer works but has two columns which are light. I don't know if that's just that the paper I had that fit it was ancient (out of my HP 5150 thermal printer, which I don't have working yet) or if the printer is weak in those two columns. Thanks, Jonathan
Thanks for sharing, I'll be bidding! On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:05 PM Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
All,
Finally got an AIM-65 I've been meaning to sell wrapped up and listed:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275425213541
This one was used in some industrial control application and had custom ROMs in it when I received it. It was also missing the plastic display mounting blocks, so a friend of mine measured his and 3D printed replacements. The displays were gone through and a number of bad ones replaced. The main board had to be basically entirely resocketed. The flex cables to the display board were of course crumbling, so they were replaced with two new Nomex jumpers.
The printer works but has two columns which are light. I don't know if that's just that the paper I had that fit it was ancient (out of my HP 5150 thermal printer, which I don't have working yet) or if the printer is weak in those two columns.
Thanks, Jonathan
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:05 PM Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Finally got an AIM-65 I've been meaning to sell wrapped up and listed:
Nice!
... It was also missing the plastic display mounting blocks, so a friend of mine measured his and 3D printed replacements.
Is there any chance your friend would share the file? It's not hard to make, but downloading an STL that's known to work is kinda nice. I have an AIM-65 missing the blocks. Thx, -ethan
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