the 5090 story has nothing on me, we found a new dc-111 in the box it is great top of the line lets see if the sales rep can sell it

Now that's got to be a record. 25 years. I've got a bottle of developer if you need it.

I actually have the color kit for that machine too, It comes with a brand new developer unit (still in wrapper) plus 2 bottles of color developer (red & blue) I believe.
Weird huh?

Is it an original model or the C model? Used to move those boxes out of our store by the dozen back in those crazy 1980's when you could not lose money selling copiers.

I would be amazed if that selenium drum had any part of it that was not crystallized and unable to hold a charge.

That being said, it would be a valuable source of parts at my shop. We still get to service those every so often. Normally it is just to tell them that we cannot get a new drum for it, so we can't fix that faded copy.

I would assume it would have to be a "C". Hey these little things were bulletproof!

I remember the endstop for the glass commonly getting busted off, and when you opened the clamshell the glass would go skating across the carpeting (or shattering on the floor). A nice little surprise when servicing!

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Originally posted by blackcat4866:
I remember the endstop for the glass commonly getting busted off, and when you opened the clamshell the glass would go skating across the carpeting (or shattering on the floor). A nice little surprise when servicing!

Replaced quite a few top covers in my day for that. If you also were a Gestetner dealer like we were back then, they had their own metal part that they designed and offered as a repair for that. You had to break off the remaining bits of the stopper on the cover, and then this metal piece fit neatly under the slider rail (which held it in place) and the spring and rail brake would fit on it. I see one still sitting on my workbench right now.

Chris - we used to take brasso to the drums. ya ever do that? you had to be a bodybuilder to pick up one of those boat anchors too.

Just dont let that top cover hit you in the gonads when you make a copy.

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Originally posted by mikethemechanic:
Chris - we used to take brasso to the drums. ya ever do that? you had to be a bodybuilder to pick up one of those boat anchors too.

yep
I used putz palmade

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Originally posted by mikethemechanic:
Chris - we used to take brasso to the drums. ya ever do that? you had to be a bodybuilder to pick up one of those boat anchors too.

Used the recommended brown drum polish, but that really was repackaged Brasso. Polishing only worked short-term, and you would have to do that every couple of months from then on until all the good selenium was rubbed off. Had more than a few selenium drums go bad just from sitting on the shelf back in the day, I would never expect one that was 20+ years old to give an acceptable copy.

Speaking of Brasso did anyone use the red fingernail polish to cover up your drum chips. In the old days it would turn your repetitive black dot on the page into a void area. Unless it landed on a word the customer never saw it.

The fingernail polish worked OK on the DC121/122/131/132/133 machines, but none past that. They used corona wire drum cleaning, and there was no blade physically contacting the drum. All the later models left streaks.

I gave up on this fix in 1991. =^..^=

YOU'VE GOT TO POST A PHOTO OF THIS BEAUTY!!! That's amazing.

I remember setting 12 of these up at a time. Then the salesmen would load them up on a 'salesmaker' cart into their truck, station wagon. They would always get the grease from the cart on their slacks.

I have 72 press rollers in stock if you need them .
OBVIOUSLY the old parts guy didn't realize they never wore out!