ZX Printer Belt

[Paul]

Tears of joy.

I second this!
YEAH!

[mhudson52]

Man, that is great to see! And I thought I had your only stylus. Please send a close-up of how you attached them to the posts.

Without your generous help it couldn't have happened!


Mike

[FrancoisLanciault]

Man, that is great to see! And I thought I had your only stylus. Please send a close-up of how you attached them to the posts.

I looked in my junk box and I found the remains of my second printer belt. It was just too tempting...

As I said, I just melt the top of the spigot to hold the stylus in place. Not a very nice solution but good enough for à try run.

[mhudson52]

The 0.01" music wire has arrived, and have done the measurements of the stylus. Will hopefully get a couple of prototypes done this evening.

[mhudson52]

After several failures at coming up with a method of reproducing the stylus I have finally arrived at a reliable method.

Here is a photo of a "phase one" prior to trimming the legs and bending the ends. I'm sure that part will be fun as well.

[msch]

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You'll be happy to look at this
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Great - marvelous progress!

[mhudson52]

Making excellent progress on reproducing the printer belt stylus. The one on the left circled in red is the original.

[Paul]

I can't see much difference.
Great job. Love to see how they print. Kind regards Paul

[mhudson52]

Thanks, Paul. Making them is about as tedious as picking fly poop out of black pepper , but now have a process that is fairly repeatable. They may require a tiny bit of tweaking but not much.

[McKlaud]

They look great! Unfortunately my ZX Printer has got a cooked ULA and no replacement available