I have been asked what is the best policy for getting a machine ready for resale.
Things you will need.
WD-40
Simple green.
Plastixclean
Novus plasic polish
Rubber rejuvinator
rags
a sink with hot water
A brush
Scotchbrite / sponge pads
Time.
You are going to want to charge someone for this machine, take your time and make it right. You dedication now will pay off when you deliver a spotless machine that functions well beyond your competitions.
Initial check. Look the machine over. Make copies and check copy quality. I looked this machine over a few days ago to prep for next week. I had already ordered rolls, cleaning rollers, feeder parts, drum and developer parts. I keep these parts on a separate shelf.
The copies came out like crap, the rolls on this machine were not bad but after sitting in a hot warehouse they are getting replaced anyway. The feeder parts for the same reason. The covers should come clean with a little work.
At the initail stage, all you want is to look for the obvious. Give your self time, while you may not need any additional parts, more often than not you will notice something you did not notice in your initial look. Give your self and your client a couple of extra days for parts as needed.
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Last edited by Lostintexas; 11-24-2008 at 07:21 PM.
Take the document feeder to the frame. Nothing is left besides a wire harness. Bare frame the machine. Remove all assemblies and covers.
Pull the door off, the drum out, the finisher off, the foc feeder is already in the sink, the laser out, the developer in the cleaning station, the toner feed system.
Bare frame it. you want access to everything and every stain. Take your time. This is the hard part.
These are after I got it apart and the last one is after the air hose.
I am at the stage right now where I am cleaning the frame. Take a rag and scrub the frame. I hate to take a machine apart in the field only to find stains left from when the machine was readied for sale and the customer can then see the quality. Take care of this now while the machine is there and apart.
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Right now it sits at my station as the picture above is posted.
The frame is clean and I did the optics cavity.
I will soak the covers in hot water prior to mondays calls and clean them when I return late monday or early tuesday. I will try and get progress pictures as I move from stage to stage in the process.
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you crazy, only time i have ever taken a machine to the frame is to recycle it...IF you are really going to rebuild from frame up you need to video tape and share with us all, manufactuers could learn from you, maybe you could even build your own machine and market them but make them more tech friendly than what some of them make now.
Here is pretty much every cover on a 4570 in a sink covered with hot water and simple green.
Remember when you clean covers. Clean then like you would plane or sand a wood project. Take a paint brush or a tooth brush and get in all the spaces between covers or between where two covers join.
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Take an air hose and knock off most of the water. Take them and set them out in the sun. while out in the sun you will notice the spots you missed. You can take them back in or wait for assembly and hit the missed spots as you install the covers. I do the later.
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Last edited by Lostintexas; 11-18-2008 at 06:19 PM.
Years ago in ancient times we had a large commercial dish washer wit the heat turned low as not to melt the covers. It worked GREAT with the right chemicals.
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While the covers are drying we can get to some of the smaller assemblies.
Clean the document feeder feed section. Clean the rollers, replace the sep pad and ramp. take a tooth brush and get all the groves and hard to reach areas.
Dump the developer and clean it. There is no point in going to this level only to put old toner into the machine. You will notice an immediate improved copy quality when you do this.
Clean the waste tank out. I do not wash it or get crazy with the waste tank. it is after all a waste tank. With the 4~500 copies you make after testing it is going to be dirtry again no matter what you do to it.
Clean out the toner happer. I would hate for a demo machine to pull the toner cartridge out only to show how much of a mess was left inside and is now all over the covers I just spent hours cleaning.
Put the paper trays in the sink and scrub them. I hate doing a demo only to add the customers paper and find a bunch of dust or an old grease spot. Set those in the sun. This will be the last installed.
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Last edited by Lostintexas; 11-18-2008 at 06:21 PM.
I installed the laser, hopper, blanking assy and a few covers prior to some other calls that came up.
I had also installed the fuser with new cleaning roller and all new feed rolls in every tray and inspected the vertical pass and ensured the updates were in place and the rolls were not hard.
Take your time. This does not have to be done in a day.
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