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Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:50 am
by Paul
gammaray wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 5:28 am Tears of joy. :cry:
I second this!
YEAH!

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:48 pm
by 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

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:46 pm
by FrancoisLanciault
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.

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 7:50 pm
by 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.

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 1:03 am
by 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.
Stylus.png

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 3:38 pm
by msch
FrancoisLanciault wrote: Sun Apr 29, 2018 4:19 am ...
You'll be happy to look at this
...

Great - marvelous progress!

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 1:45 am
by mhudson52
Making excellent progress on reproducing the printer belt stylus. The one on the left circled in red is the original.

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 9:19 am
by Paul
I can't see much difference. 8-)
Great job. Love to see how they print. Kind regards Paul

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 3:35 pm
by mhudson52
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.

Re: ZX Printer Belt

Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 5:05 pm
by McKlaud
They look great! Unfortunately my ZX Printer has got a cooked ULA and no replacement available :(