Hi folks,
I met up with a friend whom I haven't seen in decades, at the Everything Electric Show* in Farnborough and he gave me a number of StyleWriters in various states of disrepair! There's a 2x SWIIs, an SW1200 and a Color SW2400. One of the SWIIs (a yellowing one) doesn't seem to power up (no LEDs), but the other SWII and SW1200 do. Unfortunately they won't normally feed paper through, so it's impossible to do even a test image!
I found I could coerce the paper into the feed at which point it tried to do a test image, using an old, dry Apple ink cartridge. So, that was encouraging. I read that the rollers could wear out and I had seen some 'O' ring type things that had gone brittle and broken; so I took it apart and tried to fix it using some small rubber bands. Lo-and-behold, it could then feed paper through and when I swapped in a 35 year old Canon BC-02 (serial 9300E15, so maybe 1993?) it actually did do a test image print! How cool is that??!?!?
The next thing is to reassemble the little critter and see if the same trick will work with the SW1200!
I'm using the Repair Manual to do this, so there's less chance I'll snap some plastic lugs. I love the design though, basically it entirely clips together!
If it all works I'll hook it up to my PB1400 (or LC II). Originally I did have an SWII that I bought with my LCII (actually a P400) and thought it was great, mostly because it was simple, small and minimalist with crisp output.
* https://uk.everythingelectric.show/south
I met up with a friend whom I haven't seen in decades, at the Everything Electric Show* in Farnborough and he gave me a number of StyleWriters in various states of disrepair! There's a 2x SWIIs, an SW1200 and a Color SW2400. One of the SWIIs (a yellowing one) doesn't seem to power up (no LEDs), but the other SWII and SW1200 do. Unfortunately they won't normally feed paper through, so it's impossible to do even a test image!
I found I could coerce the paper into the feed at which point it tried to do a test image, using an old, dry Apple ink cartridge. So, that was encouraging. I read that the rollers could wear out and I had seen some 'O' ring type things that had gone brittle and broken; so I took it apart and tried to fix it using some small rubber bands. Lo-and-behold, it could then feed paper through and when I swapped in a 35 year old Canon BC-02 (serial 9300E15, so maybe 1993?) it actually did do a test image print! How cool is that??!?!?
The next thing is to reassemble the little critter and see if the same trick will work with the SW1200!
I'm using the Repair Manual to do this, so there's less chance I'll snap some plastic lugs. I love the design though, basically it entirely clips together!
If it all works I'll hook it up to my PB1400 (or LC II). Originally I did have an SWII that I bought with my LCII (actually a P400) and thought it was great, mostly because it was simple, small and minimalist with crisp output.
* https://uk.everythingelectric.show/south
