Has anyone found a source for Voyager E fixing films? I have quite a few low count fusers that only need a film.

Last week I worked through 22 pgs of Google search, with no good leads resulting. =^..^=

Hmmm, they might be hard to find because I don't think Kyocera really designed the voyager fuser to be taken apart. Good luck though!

Have you successfully taken one of these apart and put it back together?

I understood these to be machine assembled or something - not serviceable.

We had a tech disassemble one once to see why and where the noise was coming from. It can be disassembled but I don't think it was ever successfully reassembled.

I figured it could be disassembled - it's that dang re-assembly part.....

Not worth the labor time it would take and problems trying to reassemble something that wasn't made to be serviced.

With practice, I can have one of these disassembled and re-assembled in just over an hour. I've scavenged together a dozen or so spare fusers to help cover wait times for warranty parts, and to control costs when a machine is only 50k to the next kit (which includes the fuser).

The places to be cautious are:
1) Removing snap fit plastic covers. After baking that plastic for a while it doesn't care to flex much without breaking.
2) Watch the bearings on the foam idler roller inside the fixing belt. Those bearings seize. And they're a very common size. (8.25mm ID, 15.75mm OD, with ring, oftem labelled type 1680AH, or type 16800, or type 688ADD.) The last one should look familiar to the old timers. They are used eveywhere.
3) Loosening and tightening the contact screws for the heat lamps. The plastic holders for the threaded block can break when trying to loosen or tighten. And the metal contact surface on the lamp can twist off or break as a result.

Other than that it's not the worst fuser I've had to work on by far.

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Originally posted by blackcat4866:
Has anyone found a source for Voyager E fixing films? I have quite a few low count fusers that only need a film.

Last week I worked through 22 pgs of Google search, with no good leads resulting. =^..^=

Why waste your time, they ALL fail before the stated yield. I have taken 2 and made one, it's not that bad, about like rebuilding a Canon 6060 fuser with a bit more tongue biting. But honestly, I only did it because the fusers were on B/O.....oh hell I did it now.....I said the "B" word, crap!

OH HELL!!
HE said the "B" word, quick find all those fuser cores we stashed, we're going to need em.

Per Kyocera tech rep: Do not disassemble or repair any maintenance parts. Send them in for warranty. Per TB1 maintenance parts are warranteed for 3yrs.

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Originally posted by Manicson:
Per Kyocera tech rep: Do not disassemble or repair any maintenance parts. Send them in for warranty. Per TB1 maintenance parts are warranteed for 3yrs.

Actually it's 3 years or 300,000 copies, which ever comes first (from install date or 39 months from date of invoice.) Also, it is only valid if you have done your PM's in a timely manner. (registered within 30 days or 10,000 copies of expiration). We have a KM-C3232E with 1,142,433 copies on it with its 3rd set of PM kits and ready for the forth, and we have never had to pay extra for any of the maint kit parts. (other than the initial cost of the kits) The only time we use used parts, is we save the ones we put in under warranty, when we do the PM's. Example: 240K on the machine needs a fuser. replace fuser get warranty credit for the part. At 300 K put in the kits and keep the fuser (it only has 60K on it) to use again for a non-warranty customer or emergency when backordered.

OH HELL, I said the "B" word also.