ZX Printer Belt

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Re: ZX Printer Belt

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gammaray wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 5:28 am Tears of joy. :cry:
I second this!
YEAH!
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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!


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mhudson52 wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:48 pm 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.
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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.
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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.
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FrancoisLanciault wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 4:19 am ...
You'll be happy to look at this
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Great - marvelous progress!
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Making excellent progress on reproducing the printer belt stylus. The one on the left circled in red is the original.
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I can't see much difference. 8-)
Great job. Love to see how they print. Kind regards Paul
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Thanks, Paul. Making them is about as tedious as picking fly poop out of black pepper :shock: , but now have a process that is fairly repeatable. They may require a tiny bit of tweaking but not much.
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They look great! Unfortunately my ZX Printer has got a cooked ULA and no replacement available :(
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