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From: Suhler@IBM.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Response:  Slipping ImageWriter
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Date: 21 Nov 89 20:23:17 GMT
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I only got one direct response on my question about how to fix a slipping
ImageWriter platen.  This is from Daniel Mackay, MACKAY@DALAT.BITNET:

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I use oil of wintergreen (available at your local drugstore) to deglaze 
the platen for my customers and myself.  Be really careful with it; it 
will melt the CLEAR plastic parts of your IW and scar the opaque plastic 
parts.  Use it only on the rubber roller.  It'll take the top layer of 
rubber off, so expect to have some icky black rags when you're done.  
Apply with a oil-of-wintergreen soaked rag, wipe off with a clean one.  
Don't use paper towels; they will make a mess.  Acrylic and polester 
rags will, of course, melt.
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Thanks, Daniel.

Paul Suhler
Hybrid Dataflow Systems