On 4/2/19 3:04 PM, mike--- via cctalk wrote: > Looks like you're right! I'm pretty sure it's a cleaner. Everything on > it seems to work well, once I figured out how it was intended to work. > Just had fool the tape optical sensor (BOT/EOT?) with a piece of paper > and it started up fine. It only seems to want to go 'slow' in reverse, > but that may be something to do with the lack of tape. I like the tape > counter a lot. It shows error codes when they occur, and is a dot matrix > style LED display (perhaps not true dot matrix, just something nicer > looking than a 7-segment display).
If you're going to use this thing, do check the carbide (sometimes ceramic) cleaning blade. You want the edge to be sharp and smooth; if it's nicked or chipped, it will end up doing more harm than good. I suspect that a carbide insert for machine tools might be cobbled up as a replacement, if required. --Chuck