Smoke_Jaguar
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Been idly messing with a MK1 UJF and thinking it's time to find it a new use. Thing was left on a top shelf in a warehouse for a couple of years before it came to me. Has a bad head, slider board printhead connector clips are all rotted, head plate has a broken screw, one head is trashed. Never got too far in it. Just tossed basic things like dampers and the like at it. Probably has 3 good heads and lots of decent parts, but not sure if I have much use of it (we have 2 UJF-6042MKIIs already as well as the Frankenstein's monster that will become the 3DUJ-6042MK??). The Gen4 heads are crazy easy to flush, but not sure that I will even have work for the printer. Direct print stuff is cool and all, but work tends to mostly be boring roll media. The head carriage base is a part that I can get, as well as the head, slider board (a tap of hot glue keeps head boards in securely enough to run) and all that, but it's definitely 50/50 between dismantle and fix. Not sure the aftermarket on these things, so might not be worthwhile. If I could somehow get Mimaki's customer lists for people who bought UJF's to print phone cases, I could probably buy dozens of them for pennies on the dollar after they went bankrupt.
