
Drill
5/8
inch
hole using
a
#3 Vise Grip Unibit;
carefully clear
all chips
Il
FIG.
3-
ADDING
A FRESH TONER
filling hole to an
SX cartridge.
Use a
no. 3 vise grip
unibit and a
very slow drilling speed.
Drill 3/8
inch
hole
using
a
#3
Vise
Grip Unibit;
carefully
clear
all
chips
Be certain that
the
new
hole
is
centered between
the die sink
marks!
FIG.
4- ADDING
THE
SPENT
-TONER
emptying
hole to
a Canon
SX cartridge.
Sadly, there is now as much
as
a
15:1 cost penalty in per -page
toner
cos.ts when using
those
newer
Canon SX laser printers over the
older CX engines.
On
the
older CX
cartridges, you
were
able to buy
cartridges for five
bucks
out
of
your
Sunday paper and
refill
them
up to seven times,
bringing all
your toner costs down
into
the
0.33-
cents -a -page
range
that is
cost competitive
with
jiffy offset
printing
services.
Unfortunately, those SX car-
tridges do use a highly
abrasive
toner, combined with
drums
that
are
intolerably
scratch
sensitive.
So,
while
you can in fact reload
SX
cartridges,
at present, you just
can
not
even remotely approach
those CX cartridge
economics. So,
do
consider
this a progress
report
where I'll bring
you up to date
on
what can and cannot
be done at
the present.
While it is difficult
to even
get a
second SX
reload, you
can some-
times
do so
with the
following
ricks and
techniques.
First, you
immediately remove
the
factory
toner and give
it to your
friendly
neighborhood
diesel
mechanic or
use as
a valve grinding
compound.
Replace
it with a good quality
third -party
refill toner.
Second, be
certain
to
use
a
drum
lubricant,
such as
Pixie Dust
or
its
equivalent.
Do a very
light
dusting
after every
refill.
There
are
two
refilling
methods,
the
Punch
and
Go and
the Total
Teardown.
I very much
prefer
Swampfelder Industries MTT -T1
dissociation
chamber
fiber
optics
1llllllllllllllllr
FIG. 5-
PICTORIAL OF
THE
MTT T1
mass
-teleportation
transmitter unit
for the Apple II
Plus.
The
solid
-state
100 milliwatt
ultra -violet
laser chip is optical -fiber coupled to the
dissociation
chamber.
The telephone
connection
is
on
the
other
side of the card.
punch and go,
since that delivers
far and away
the lowest per
-page
toner cost
to the end user.
We
charge $22
for
local
SX
refills.
Since
this is a remote
rural area, I
can
get away
with
such
an out-
rageously
high price. You can do
the job by yourself
for
as
little as
$7.50 and three
minutes time.
The SX cartridge
needs
to be
modified before you
can refill
it.
Using
a
Vise
Grip
no. 3 Unibit and
a
very
slow
drilling speed, you drill
the
two holes as shown
in Figs. 3
and
4. Drill upside down and be
very careful to
remove the single
chip
that the unibit
provides.
The
two holes are then
capped
with
a
nickel Caplug
or else some
very
aggressive
tape.
There are
three major
steps to
the
refilling process.
You
first
open the
holding -tank
hole and
carefully
shake out
the excess
toner. Do this outside
and avoid
breathing
any of the
toner. You'll
then reseal
your holding
-tank
hole, open
the fresh toner
tank
hole, and pour
in
a
bottle of
refill
toner.
Finally, you remove
the old
fu-
sion
wiper wand and peel and
stick
a new
wiper pad in place.
Another tip:
keep the green
toner dial advanced
all the
way to
nine for
any and
all
rough
drafts
and
for all internal use docu-
ments. Note that the
higher the
number,
the
less toner
you will
use.
Cartridge life can easily be
doubled
merely
by using
that sim-
ple technique.
I currently recommend using
Lazer
Products to supply toner,
pixie dust,
wiper pads,
and drum
recoating.
Mass teleportation
The rate at
which science and
technological
fact
is
outpacing
sci-
ence
fiction continues
to utterly
astound
me.
Nowhere is that
more
apparent
than
in the
emerging
field of mass teleportation.
The
exciting
center of
all that
has
recently been
happening
is in that
outstanding
International
Journal
of
Teleportation and
Mass Trans-
fer.
In particular, do
check out
Bar -
foot and Gentry's
tutorial
material
way
back
in Volume
XVIII, pages
1146 -1198, along
with
their ex-
tremely
detailed
bibliography.
continued
on
page 76
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