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Default Old LaserJet 5 with paper jam

TheOldFellow wrote:

The roller tyres gets impregnated with paper dust and it makes them
slippy instead of grippy.


Bit of meths to clean the rubber - seems to work. Not sure if it reduces the
life of the rubber tho.

Still using an LJ5 that I bought in 95 or 96. Only replacement was a fuser
unit around 2000. i think that was because we were using rather rough
notepaper.