There is a rubber roller cleaner/rejuvenator out there. I bought
it from some firm in California a year or two ago. They sold
it by the bottle, or by the sheet (for $1.00 for a sheet good
for several uses!). Unfortunately, I can't remember the name
of the firm or the URL, but a diligent enough Google search should
pull it up, if the company is still in business. It kept a printer
of mine going for another year, until something else broke and
I ditched the printer.
- David Bookbinder
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Probably the same stuff as in the Nortronics VCR cleaner I bought
many years
ago and still have. It says "contains trichlorotrifluoroethane."
In other
words, ozone-depleting CFCs, which is why you can no longer buy
them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Shomler" <bobf1@shomler.com>
To: <alan@aeckertphoto.com>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: OT-Restoring rubber rollers on printers...
>I wish I still had the TEAC tape cleaning kit I had back in
the early 80's.
>I have no idea what the rubber cleaner was that was in it, but
it removed
>all manner of junk from cassette and RTR pinch rollers, and
did a brilliant
>job of restoring the rubber to a useful condition. I imagine
the same
stuff
>would work wonders on printer rollers. Maybe someone else on
the list
>remembers what the product is? I just remember it reeked and
was NOT the
>basic alcohol most cleaners use.
>
>Rob
Weren't some of the cleaners then TCE? (In the 60s I recall
some that were
Carbon tet; I think they were gone by the 80s.) Some others
in the 60s and
70s were MEK, but I don't recall them being used for rubber or
mag tape
parts.
--
Bob Shomler
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