ok here's a weird dealy. i buy thing for cheap because im good at repairing them.

laptops, camera's, like 7 ipods, cell phones, cars, 15 ps2's "other" game systems ,pc's, x-box 360's, power equipment, car/home amplifiers. blah blah blah.

this however is funny because i have been having issues with my cutter plotter. now normally i just laugh when i find out whats wrong with stuff or spot a minor problem. but this made me both cringe and stare blankly.........

as illustrated by this picture i took of some repair work done on my cutter machine before i owned it....lol



a tape from a tape measure used as a ribbon guide for the cutter mechanism.

i'm still looking for the fault causing the machine to flip out at random. i'm guessing a ground. but ummmmmmm yeah. if it gets stranger i will inform you guys.

 

that's actually pretty funny, but hey if it works for its purpose i say kudos to the original repairman....i would guess that its a short as well....lol

 

as long as it wasn't done at the factory than i dont care, it works pretty well i just hope it was kept at that and i dont find anything else from the tape measure hidden in there........ lol

 

alrighty apparently there was a ground fault in one of the circuits that was intermittent.

i guess i wont have to buy another cutter after all.

 

"Shorts lengthened while you wait."

Glad you are finding the problem.