replacement sponge for Epson printer

[carl]

Hello,

I have an older Epson stylus 740 which had severely clogged printheads. In
the process of unclogging them I damaged the small sponge that sits beneath
the printheads when in the parked position. It was a very small but also
very absorbent spongy/foamy material. I am wondering if anyone knows of
suitable material to construct a replacement.

thanks

Carl

[Jerry G.]

We've been through this before with printers. You're best off to call
the manufacture for the original sponge. These are made of material
compositions that will not degrade from the chemicals in the ink. It is
also safer in the way that there is no chance of it degrading, and
making small pieces that can go astray in the printer, thus causing
other problems.

If you want to be cheap about it and take the chance, you can go to
most any hardware centre, buy some fine sponge material, and cut it to
the right size. But, you may not like the long term results.

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[Dave D]

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I took mine out and binned it. On my printer (Stylus 500) it covers the
entrance to the head cleaning suction system, and as far as I can tell
simply soaks up sudden large ink deposits when the pump isn't operating,
rather than them spilling over. I have never run into problems without it,
YMMV.

Dave

[EsMot]

Isn't it the same type of sponge as the big one in the used ink tank on the
bottom of your printer? I hope I'm not confusing it with HP's... As far as I
remember there's a big piece of sponge sitting in a open top plastic tank
somewhere inside the printer collecting the used ink from the vacuum pump.
Unfortunately you must take almost all parts off to reach the tank...
Anyway: I believe you can safely cut a little piece of that big sponge, it
won't even notice it....

SM

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[Bill Webb]

If you have a spent ink cartridge lying around, you could cut it open
and use one of the sponges from the cartridge (1 in black, 3 smaller
ones in a color cartridge). It may be advisable to wash any residual ink
out of the sponge first, preferably someplace where it will not make a
mess :-)