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‎04-17-2016 04:37 AM - edited ‎04-17-2016 04:39 AM

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Hi Joe Schmoe, Thanks for the pics.  I think that is what I need to do as I got the same "out of paper" message and found half a tiny gear (or cog) on the top of my paper in the paper tray.  However how do you open up the printer just above where you load the paper in your first picture?

Many thanks

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‎04-29-2016 05:54 AM

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cut a hole under mine and used locktite glue on the cracked shifted gear. so far so good.

Thanks for the tip.

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‎09-01-2016 09:33 PM

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I cut the hole in the bottom with an oscillating saw-much neater! It would be a chinese torture to try to access the shoddily made gear by mirrors and special tools.    fortunately my gear had just slipped off the little splines on the shaft-im hopeful that superglue will hold.

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‎09-02-2016 06:37 AM

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I cut a hole in the bottom of mine, and tried to epoxy the gear back together.  After a couple days it broke again.  Tossed it out and bought a HP 8610 that showed much better reviews, and also purchased a 3 year warranty from Staples for it.

 

It was about $100 out the door so if it lasts 3+ years I will get my money out of it.

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‎11-17-2016 07:28 PM - edited ‎11-17-2016 07:32 PM

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Spent hours cleaning my HPOffice jet 6500 to try and get it to feed the paper when printing. I discovered  the little cog  at the end of the metal shaft described in the you tube videos (where little mirrors were used).  After manually sliding it in to place, the paper feed rollers were still not working. I could see that the first set of pulleys (towards the front) were not catching with ones in the middle thus not moving the pulleys in the back half  that would have made the big paper rollers work. With my fingers, I rolled the pulley's in upper back, back and forth manually and I'll be damned if I didn't reset something...it immediately started making a resetting noise.  I then did a printer status report and Bingo! It Works great now!

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‎11-18-2016 04:27 AM

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Superglue didnt work. I redid gluing on the slipping gear with JBweld epoxy and it has been working ever since. It is satisfying to beat planned obsolescence instead of just going out and buying a new one-beat the system.
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‎11-25-2016 10:18 PM

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Well as soon as i sent on the last post my next print came out with pieces of the little gear and epoxy scattered on top. New printer time but not an hp
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