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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
Sometime back I was given a Kroy 80K lettering machine along with a
Kroy XL SignMaker and a big ****load of tapes. Anybody have any links to a manual on how to set it up and make it work? The basic think works like a Dymo lable maker..but it has a main tape..and a thin clear tape over it. I think...think..its supposed to heat up the main tape and melt the letter to the thin clean tape and then pull it off or out of the main tape. Its impressing it deeply..but its not removing the letter itself. And I dont have a clue what the XL signmaker is supposed to do. I see em on ebay and I found the manufacture and dropped em an email..but...Ive not had a response in a week. Anyone know how its supposed to work? Manuals? Links? I see em on Ebay for $100..but no manuals that I can find Thanks! Gunner -- "Confronting Liberals with the facts of reality is very much akin to clubbing baby seals. It gets boring after a while, but because Liberals are so stupid it is easy work." Steven M. Barry |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
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... Sometime back I was given a Kroy 80K lettering machine along with a Kroy XL SignMaker and a big ****load of tapes. ... Gunner You HAD to remind me of them! http://munk.org/typecast/2012/08/14/...le-typewriter/ I remember covering the tapes with Scotch bookmending tape because the lettering wore off too easily on control panels. The best use is to pot it in wax and donate it to a time capsule. |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:13:56 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Gunner" wrote in message ... Sometime back I was given a Kroy 80K lettering machine along with a Kroy XL SignMaker and a big ****load of tapes. ... Gunner You HAD to remind me of them! http://munk.org/typecast/2012/08/14/...-system-and-a- dayton-portable-typewriter/ I remember covering the tapes with Scotch bookmending tape because the lettering wore off too easily on control panels. The best use is to pot it in wax and donate it to a time capsule. I dunno Jim -- if the memories are that painful, wouldn't it be better to pot it in clear epoxy? Reduces the chances of someone chipping it out, y'know. -- Tim Wescott Control system and signal processing consulting www.wescottdesign.com |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
... On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:13:56 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote: "Gunner" wrote in message The best use is to pot it in wax and donate it to a time capsule. I dunno Jim -- if the memories are that painful, wouldn't it be better to pot it in clear epoxy? Reduces the chances of someone chipping it out, y'know. -- Tim Wescott There are technologies you purposely leak to your enemies, or future alien invaders, to set them back a generation. For us it was the Fairchild semiconductors that the Russians surreptitiously bought for their ICBMs. |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:57:55 -0700, Gunner
wrote: Sometime back I was given a Kroy 80K lettering machine along with a Kroy XL SignMaker and a big ****load of tapes. Anybody have any links to a manual on how to set it up and make it work? The basic think works like a Dymo lable maker..but it has a main tape..and a thin clear tape over it. I think...think..its supposed to heat up the main tape and melt the letter to the thin clean tape and then pull it off or out of the main tape. Its impressing it deeply..but its not removing the letter itself. And I dont have a clue what the XL signmaker is supposed to do. I see em on ebay and I found the manufacture and dropped em an email..but...Ive not had a response in a week. Anyone know how its supposed to work? Manuals? Links? I see em on Ebay for $100..but no manuals that I can find http://www.kroy.com/download/index.htm If this is them, ask them, mon. -- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle' |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:39:07 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:13:56 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote: "Gunner" wrote in message The best use is to pot it in wax and donate it to a time capsule. I dunno Jim -- if the memories are that painful, wouldn't it be better to pot it in clear epoxy? Reduces the chances of someone chipping it out, y'know. -- Tim Wescott There are technologies you purposely leak to your enemies, or future alien invaders, to set them back a generation. For us it was the Fairchild semiconductors that the Russians surreptitiously bought for their ICBMs. My nephew toured a military nuclear facility of some sort in Idaho; he was told by one of the guides that for the really _hard_ problems they'd convince the Russians that we were close to a breakthrough, wait two years, then steal the technology. -- My liberal friends think I'm a conservative kook. My conservative friends think I'm a liberal kook. Why am I not happy that they have found common ground? Tim Wescott, Communications, Control, Circuits & Software http://www.wescottdesign.com |
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Kroy 80k Lettering machine
On 2012-09-16, Gunner wrote:
Sometime back I was given a Kroy 80K lettering machine along with a Kroy XL SignMaker and a big ****load of tapes. Anybody have any links to a manual on how to set it up and make it work? The basic think works like a Dymo lable maker..but it has a main tape..and a thin clear tape over it. I think...think..its supposed to heat up the main tape and melt the letter to the thin clean tape and then pull it off or out of the main tape. Its impressing it deeply..but its not removing the letter itself. No heat. Just mechanical pressure. The one which I find on a search is one which I used a bit at work, and which I have a manual version of at home which I can no longer use. The URL http://www.invasionautoproducts.com/kr80kedkeles.html Does yours look like this one above? I think that the 'K' means "Keyboard". It has two tapes in a cartridge -- one of which sticks onto paper for making headlines and such for preparing documents for photo production. Our local folklore group used one for making the newsletter. You are limited by which wheels you have for styles and font sizes. The lower tape has a backing paper, and the other is a very thin one with the ink on it. The thin tape goes through a staple like thing under the bar, then up and around a 45-degree metal plate (red anodized in what I remember), and then to a hub which winds up the used ink tape. (The hub comes packaged with the tape cartridge.) I have a bunch of wheels, one manual printer (no keyboard), and *no* tapes which are still any good. They go bad, especially if stored where it is hot. I don't know whether the tapes are still available. The tapes (ignoring the paper backing) are clear, and the inks are usually either black or white, though probably other colors are (were?) available as well. And I dont have a clue what the XL signmaker is supposed to do. Presumably the "XL" means "Extra Large", and it produces larger fonts for signs you can read from a distance. This must use even wider tapes -- perhaps 1" or 2" instead of the 1/2" which the 80 series used. There was also a 40 instead of 80 series -- smaller wheels and smaller fonts only. I see em on ebay and I found the manufacture and dropped em an email..but...Ive not had a response in a week. Anyone know how its supposed to work? Manuals? Links? You just turn it on and type in what you want it to display. It produces a clear tape with your message, which you can stick onto whatever. (I liked the white on clear for marking controls and connectors on things I built -- both at work and at home.) And there were accessories -- one which rolled the tape (with the paper backing) through a pair of rollers with some 3M "Magic" tape to cover the lettering and allow it to wear a lot better. The other accessory was a rolling slitter, to cut the tape to half width for smaller fonts. I see em on Ebay for $100..but no manuals that I can find Do you see anyone actually finding a buyer? To use it, just put in a *good* cartridge, turn it one, type your labels or whatever onto the one line LCD screen, and then hit "print". IIRC, you could ask it to print more than one copy, but not much more. It *may* have been interfaceable to a PC to load the messages, but that was not done with the one at work, so I don't know. Instructions on installing and threading the cartridge are on the underside of the hinged gray plastic bar which covers the working part. The wheels have a stepped circle molded inside the ring of letters which set how far to advance the tape for the next letter, compensating for the different width of the letters. These days, the same thing is done electronically, printing on the tape thermally and making up the shapes of the letters from data in memory. As a result, you don't need the separate "Symbols" wheels. :-) *If* you can get good tapes for it (I tried to find them a couple of years ago, and had no luck -- and if your tapes were not stored in a cold air conditioned room, they are almost certainly dead), and really want to use it, I can ship you the wheels which I have (make more room here), and even the manual one I have. (Turn the wheel by hand, then press a button to turn on a motor to cycle the impression.) You can have them for the cost of shipping. Probably the cost to ship the manual printer would be more than the shipping cost for all the wheels which I have (unless the bulk plays games with it). But -- if you can't get good ribbons/tapes there is no point, just as there is no point to me keeping mine. :-) Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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