RE: A novice's experiences with refilling

[Ken Mantei <kmantei@csusb.edu>]

<x-flowed>>Barry,
>
>I'm always looking for an excuse to visit the Home Depot, so 
>specifics on your centrifugal
>device would be most welcome.  Also, in reading your post I pictured 
>the possibility of using
>a simple salad spinner to create the centrifugal action.  From your 
>experience with your
>device, do you feel this might do the trick?
>
>michael *¿*

  2-3 years ago there was a spate of posts regarding use of a salad
spinner to remove entrapped air bubbles in refilled carts. There
didn't seem to be a consensus among those who tried it that it worked
well enough. One or two said it worked, but I suspect that many others
tried it and found it not to be "the magic bullet".

  I tried taping carts in ZipLoc baggies to a drill bit, spinning
inside a cardboard box (just in case). Didn't persist long enough
to convince myself it was worth the considerable trouble. . . maybe
if I had built some convenient hardware mounting I would have continued.
This WAS useful for rinsing old ink out of a cart with isopropyl
alcohol. As erstwhile epson lister Steve Chlupsa said, this rinse made
the sponge MUCH more receptive to refilling.

  After tiring of the drill spin, I tried swinging the refilled carts
around in a long old stocking, never really sure if it helped. Today
I still haven't found "the answer", and just shoot up a few refills
the simplest way while I'm resting, try 'em and pitch 'em if they
don't work, falling back on OEM carts when I run out of refilled
carts to try. As a hobbyist, I can afford unreliability.   ---Ken

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