Editing Atari 1027 (section)

== Known faults ==

* The rubber type wheel perishes, going soft and crumbling inside the printer.<ref name="csa8">"Any cool use for 1027 printers with shattered/dead print wheels?", comp.sys.atari.8bit, posts by John Miskinis and others, 7-14 April 2004. [https://comp.sys.atari.8bit.narkive.com/gD2bkLq8/any-cool-use-for-1027-printers-with-shattered-dead-print-wheels comp.sys.atari.8bit.narkive.com]. Community discussion.</ref> In 2017 a forum member offered 3D-printed silicone replacement rubbers ("Revive1027"), warning that their print quality was at the limit of what the printing process could resolve.<ref name="revive">"\"Revive1027\" Order thread", AtariAge Forums, Atari 8-Bit Computers, 2017. [https://forums.atariage.com/topic/271589-revive1027-order-thread/ forums.atariage.com]. Community project.</ref>
* Dry ink rollers, which can be re-inked with stamp pad ink.<ref name="page6">Phil Rae, "Atariwriter and the 1027", ''Page 6'' no. 16 (July/August 1985), p. 28. [https://www.page6.org/archive/issue_16/page_28.htm page6.org]. Magazine article.</ref>
* Garbled lines when the type wheel loses its alignment, cleared by switching off and on.<ref name="og">Atari, Inc., ''The Atari 1027 Letter Quality Printer Owner's Guide'' (1983): set-up, paper, troubleshooting questions, lubrication and the international character table. Hosted here as [[:File:Atari 1027 Letter Quality Printer Owner's Guide.pdf]].</ref>

The [[Atari 1027 Maintenance Guide]] and [[Atari 1027 Troubleshooting]] pages cover these in detail. Atari's parts list and schematic give a value only for the main filter capacitor, C1 (15,000 µF 25 V); the other capacitors are shown on the schematic by position only.<ref name="fsm" />