Try wintergreen flavoring from the grocery store. The main ingredient is oil
of wintergreen.
Myc
On 8/22/06, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:29:04 +0200, YD <yd_br@...> wrote:
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> >
> > The result? Perfect! The roller has a nice rough
> > rubber surface at what seems to be the original
> > diameter. It's picked up every single sheet for months
> > now without failure. Even better, when and if needed I
> > can do it again and still have the cake, er, the
> > original part.
> > - YD.
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>
> Thank you!
>
> That is a good Tip for me, i recently bought a replacement for the upper
> pickup roller (very cheap on ebay nobody wanted it), but this way i can
> also fix the lower roller on my IIID.
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> I tried sanding the original roller but it never worked any better,
> glycerine did no good either,
>
> The "cracks" are "stock" with those rollers, they are there as friction
> ridges (like one your hands and feet) to make it grip. But the surface
> wears down and goes shiny as you observed and it just won't work properly
> any more.
>
> BTW someone recently suggested a strange chemical to do just this roller
> repair, it was called something crazy like oil of wintergreen or
> something. Now my chemicals shop sells sea foam dust and dragon blood but
> i don't think they have heard of that wintergreen stuff. I looked it up
> and it is methyl salicylate, but that don't show up on their inventory
> list either, maybe it has another name i'm not aware of.
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