{"id":125,"date":"2021-02-26T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:32:04","slug":"repairing-dymo-letratag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Repairing Dymo LetraTag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend of mine send me her broken Dymo labelprinter. The descriped fault was &#8220;not turning on&#8221;.<br>While I opend up the unit screws and springs fell out &#8211; nice start. somebody was here before.<br><br>On picture 1 you can see the screws I had removed (top) and the things that fell out on its own (bottom).<br><br>After a first inspection I found a stripped cable that wasn&#8217;t attached to anything (picture 2) and the negative-site of the battery-array that has no connection (picture 3). The cable was manually stripped and too short for the way. It was in fact the powerline for the mainboard (see 4).<br>After soldering a new wire to the board and the terminal (picture 5 &amp; 6) the printer shows its first signs of life (7).<br><br>The long spring (in picture 1 bottom) is for the cutting mechanism in picture 8. But there seems to be missing a support-part. So the automatic backflip of the blade is broken. :\/<br><br>After some cleaning of the rubber roller, thats forwards the tape, with some isopropyl the system worked again as it should (except the autoreturn of the blade).  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"139\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/?attachment_id=139\" class=\"wp-image-139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1.jpg 756w, https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1-158x210.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 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On picture 1 you can see the screws I had removed (top) and the things that fell out on its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sheepchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}