My HP 1055CM just tore the belt. Looking for a recommendation for an online company to get parts. My local dealer no longer services HP so I am on my own with this. I am not too bothered with mech. work like this, but I know that the carriage will need alignment and I want to make sure that happens correctly. LPS Computer has a video on Youtube and I am thinking of going with them, can anyone second this?
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Also ordered from LPS, awesome detailed video, provides tools and replacement parts, and of course detailed YouTube video.
Really happy with them.
I recognize the guy in the video from when I did my HP500 Designjet belt, this must be the outfit I bought from. I have no complaints at all. It took me 7 hours, which I spread over 3 days but I got it done and it's working fine to this day. They had a convincing spiel about how their belts are built better and will last longer. You may need some unusual tools -- I did -- got them at the hardware store. Luckily I saw the belt failure coming about this time last year and ordered the new one and saved the job for winter, when work dies down up here in Maine. The job wasn't awful at all -- if you can change a vacuum cleaner bag you can do this.
Thanks for the replies! Ordered from LPS this morning. Will let you all know how it turns out.
Received the LPS kit on Friday and installed the belt on Sunday. I am up and running again. To my surprise, the belt kit came with a 39 piece screwdriver and bit set with all the needed torx bits for the install. Also, a cd was provided with the service manual for my HP 1055cm, which will be handy to have. I followed along with the video with only a couple of hitches. A barb broke off of the plastic clip that holds the tensioner and spring assembly in place for reassembly. I had to finagle the thing together. Also, the motherboard for my unit did not have the test pads on the circuit board to check the resistance regarding the trailing cable on the carriage assembly. I had to wing it and hope I had everything together correctly. Also, I ended up with two extra machine screws, that for the life of me I can't find where they came from. I even watched the video a second time to try and figure it out. It works fine now and it was a great learning experience working on the machine.
Those plotters are like old Maytag washer machines.
I think there is an HP repair man standing around somewhere waiting for one to break down.
He calls me about every 12 months asking if they can sell us a new plotter....um no sorry this one is working fine.
15 years and still going strong. They sure screwed up on that design.