There are a couple of things which need to be done to the sign cutter before I will be able to use it. One issue in particular requires diagnostic assessment that I just can't do myself, so a local egg-head is doing the testing for me. The LCD display shows scrambled characters instead of English. My computer guy says that could either be an easy fix, OR the LCD board may need replacement. Wonderful!
I called the manufacturer, they don't have parts for 'legacy' machines such as mine. Legacy?? Why don't they just say old, ancient, un-new, relic....
The day I bought my cutter, I saw that the pinch rollers x2 were perishing and coming apart. I put a sheet of light cardboard through the cutter on Sunday night, and the moment the rollers turned one flew apart, the other turned to a sticky mess of stinky black cheese that thoroughly coated the cardboad and eventually the metal roller beneath it (after the card shot out of the cutter). Methinks it had sat idle for some length of time! 5 min on ebay found me new rollers, $10 for a pair. I removed all the rubber mush from the old ones, in case I needed to 'sleeve' them with fresh rubber of a suitable size. Automotive oil/fuel/water hose would do the trick, but I won't need to worry about that now.
Hmmmmm, what should I make first, when the cutter is ready to go. (I'm remaining optomistic!!)
Legacy, bah!
P.S: The sunshine cab roof is now with the local sandblasters, and will be ready for me to pickup on Thursday. If I paint insides of my other set of wheels tomorrow, they will be ready to paint the outsides on Friday, hopefully as I am also painting the roof. Happy days.