1983 Imagewriter Take-apart Guide

[BadGoldEagle]

All is in the title. I have the owner's manual but I can't find the repair guide anywhere online.

I'd like to dismantle the whole thing as it's pretty damn dirty and rotten in there!

All I can see is Imagewriter II guides...

Maybe I'm just blind?

 

[olePigeon]

Same thing.  IW II and LQ.  It could be that it was only ever released as a paper service manual, and no one's scanned it.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Dayum!

I cannot find a way to separate the beige box from the bottom grey platter. The logic board (don't know if that's the correct term for an apple printer?) is easily accessible but you can't take it out. There is no slack AT ALL. The mechanism is screwed to the beige box. So I think you have to take the grey platter off first.

I know the Imagewriter wasn't designed by Apple (as was the PW 100 as a matter of fact), but I can't remember who made it.

IIRC, the two models were completely identical. So maybe that company produced a repair guide?

 

[olePigeon]

If you can find out which printer clone it is, you may have better luck finding the other company's service manual.

Edit:  Just looked on Wikipedia, and they said it was a rebadged model C. Itoh 8510.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Yep found it an hour ago on Wikipedia. Wasn't that hard to find.

I found the manual but sadly no repair/take apart section... It wouldn't load on my iPhone earlier, dunno why.

 

[olePigeon]

http://docslide.us/documents/c-itoh-8510-dot-matrix-printer-user-manual.html

Found the user manual, but it's not a service manual.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Too fast for me ole 

 

[mori512k]

BadGoldEagle,

I downloaded an Appl Technical Proceedures manual for the ImageWriter II from the web.

Try a search by that name. If you can't find it, PM me and I'll email you a copy. It does have diagrams for taking it apart.

It looks like a repair guide for Apple repair where if you find a part that is not working, it says replace it. Nothing about HOW to repair it.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Found it, thanks!

Hope the instructions are the same for the original Imagewriter! I'll give it a go in about 2 weeks.

I'll keep you posted

 

[BadGoldEagle]

I gave it a go this morning. Looks like the IW1 and the IW2 are pretty similar.

There are two screws on each side. The one on the right is inaccessible. I think you need a special right angled philips #2 to take it out. The controls circuitry is in the way...