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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Don Hopkins <don@donhopkins.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 06:36:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpmoGXh6rir8xCugCS-y5e6h2JZK7660mpsMJ5gd=A-LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJohCKJON2LFM0nx+ts0MwHd9LtmJvNzw9hP-K9t4+GcpNoKiA@mail.gmail.com>

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It works. For the ribbon type printers, it gets the ink moving enough to
get a second or third use from the cart. Print quality was dicey, but for
listings to do debugging on a dot matrix printer, quality wasn't the name
of the game. Just don't use too much...

Warner

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can supposedly revive dried out ribbons by soaking them in WD40. I’ve
> heard of it but never tried it.
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
>> Which was ...?
>>
>> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Especially if you use the WD40 trick for the ink ribbon. :)
>> >
>> > Warner
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 1:14 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a functional LA120 in my house and can attest to the machine
>> smell
>> > > whenever I run it.
>>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2.1533693601.12251.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32   ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59     ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51       ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45         ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09           ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Toby Thain
2018-08-08 17:38             ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14               ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44                 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09  5:14                   ` arnold
2018-08-09  5:55                     ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09  6:02                       ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09  7:20                       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36                       ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-08-09 13:45                         ` Michael Parson
2018-08-09 13:31                   ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15                     ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26                       ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-10 11:37                         ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37                       ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24                         ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58                           ` Pete Turnbull

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