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From: ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: LaserWriter Plus Jamming. Found: loose spring.
Message-ID: <11916.27aec81e@amherst.bitnet>
Date: 5 Feb 91 14:58:38 GMT
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Recently my Laserwriter Plus started jamming anytime I started sending paper
through it. I opened it up and found a small spring unnattached but I have no
idea where it needs to go. Looking at the printer from the end where the paper
goes, the paper always jams on the left side as its trying to go through the
final rollers under the green fuzzy plate that warns of high temperature. The
spring looks kinda like this, and has a small plastic tab of sorts leading off
of it that seems to have been ripped and/or burned through causing it to break.
The spring itself is almost exactly 1 inch long and the plastic tab about 1.5
inches:
		     torn end	looks like it was heated and stretched
			()
			()
			()	plastic tab about 1/8in wide
			()
			[]   metal square to which the plastic is attached
			==
			==	a coiled spring
			==	
			-
		       / \	a metal loop perpindicular to the spring
			_
			|
			|	This part, including the two loops, looks
			|	liks a script "S"
			-
		       / \	another metal loop
			-	

So, anyway, that picture doesn't do the spring justice, but the fact is that it
is no longer in the printer and the printer is jamming mercilessly. If anyone
knows what this is, or, better, where it goes, please e-mail ASAP. I tried
replacing the toner cartridge and it still jammed.

Thanks,
Kevin Bolduan
KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST