[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar printout DONE!

[Jameel Akari]

In the Proprinter manual that I read as a PDF and then lost, I believe it says not to lube the guide rail.  This would make sense with paper dust.
However given age and infrequent use, my thought is that a film of light oil on all the metal rails and spindles to prevent rust is worthwhile - you can always wipe away excess oil, but rust can be harder to remove.

I used sewing machine oil and then a low-lint wipe to clean the excess plus whatever dirt the printhead scraped off.

And I’ve been using Krytox PTFE grease sparingly for plastic-to-metal and plastic-to-plastic lube.  (Exception on the Proprinter, you do /not/ lube the printhead leadscrew with anything.)


Incidentally if anyone finds an IBM Proprinter XL / XL24 service manual PDF, send me the link because my Google-fu has failed to find something I KNOW I read not long ago.

— 
Jameel


> On Feb 28, 2021, at 2:02 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 01:42:39PM -0500, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Here are the printers I fought at VCF:
>> 
>> Anyone familiar with the Diablo? It powers up, is very clean but the print-head won't budge. I wonder if there is a lock-down for shipping or something I couldn't find...
>> 
> 
> Did you try moving by hand with power off? Normally they will move with only
> some resistance when power is off. If not it may be dried oil like others
> said. There is debate on what if anything should be used on the rails.