The determination not to be defeated by planned failures is inspiring. You are me in another life. I was looking for any information on the exact same issue. I'm going to get that part.
Really good video by the way. It worked for me. Instead of 3D printing I drilled a tiny hole next to the hole that broke. Seems to work. I’m 100% convinced this fault is planned obsolescence from DYMO.
It is incredible how poorly this part is designed, that so many people run into that issue. And we are just the few geeks that actually try to repair stuff. Thanks for the video, i'm currently sitting in front of my opened dymo with the same issue, trying to reinforce the cracked loop with glue, since I don't have a 3d printer. Wish me luck
Update: reinforced the part with tons of glue, hooking the spring back in was easier when you remove the silver pin instead of flexing the fork open that holds the pin. You can just push the pin out and push it back in. In the end, I had a few parts left-over that fell out, including a spring and some plastic pieces. But the dymo works great now, so I assume they were just decoration :P
❤❤❤ Truely, there are more ppl than "one person in the world", which find this video helpful. 3d model is just fine an resolved my issue. Thank you for the video and sharing your effort.
You are awesome! I strongly suspect that this is the exact same problem with my DYMO 160 LabelManager. As I neither have your technical skills nor your patience, I fixed the problem in a different way. Just found my 40+ years old dymo embosser label maker in the drawer - this will be my go to label maker going forward. Very low tech, made before planned obsolescence was invented and uses no batteries - I love it.
Thanks Christopher, had the same issue and thanks to your video I have now a fully functioning Dymo Labelmanager 160. Cheers Abdelhak. For the replacement part you made. I do not have a 3D printer and also the eye where the spring was fed tru beoke of so I derilled a new hole directly next to it straight in fresh plastic and works absolutely fine. Cheers
Thank you for taking the time to document this. I'll share my slight alteration to your fix that worked for me (and didn't require 3d printing). I took the smallest drill bit I could find (made for my dremel) and drilled a small hole behind the one that gave out. there is slighly more tension but it works perfectly now. Also the metal rod the spring attaches to (in the door) can be moved out with a pair of needle nose pliers. This makes the final assembly easier.
Thank you for this video and the 3D model - I was also unable to fix the original part and the 3D print came in handy. Another piece of e-waste saved, for a while.
Great video! This is exactly the problem with my unit. Unfortunately, after 3/4 the way through, I realized that this is way too much work for me to take on. And, coincidentally, the same unit is currently on sale on Amazon for $40 and includes 3 tapes. For me, this is a replace versus fix. Kudos to you though!
Great Video! One recommendation to make life easier for anyone undertaking this repair. After you have attached the spring back to the actuator (the plastic armature inside the unit), tie a piece of thin wire to the other end of the spring and feed it through the hole to the lid. You can then pull the spring with the wire to get it over the pin in the lid, and when it's in place, simply pull the wire out.
Thank you! Looks like I'm the one guy having the exact same problem, haha. As soon as you mentioned the door spring, I looked in and saw it dangling there 😞. Hopefully I can revive it like you did!
Same problem. I see the spring when I open the door. I don’t think I have these kinds of skills. But thankfully after a little back and forth with Dymo, they’re sending me a replacement device. I didn’t have the receipt from 2.5 years ago, but they are replacing as a “goodwill gesture.” I guess I’ll just have to toss this one!
Thanks for the video, pointed me to the right direction, tried to fix it using spring and gave up. Took piece of the label material bunched it up a bit and tucked it in between spot that pushes the label to print head. Little nudging and I can replace cartridges no problem.
I cut off the end of a wooden clothes hanger to use as a shim behind the print head, effectively bypassing the spring. It's crude, but it works - heck of a lot easier than disassembling the thing to going through what you did. If you use this approach, you have to make sure the shim is slim enough to only press against the actual support arm of the print head, and NOT against the actual swiveling portion, otherwise it will cam the swivel head and cause feed rate and printing issues.
Thank you for your video! This is exactly my problem as well. I was trying to access the links in the description for the 3D printed part, but the links do not work. Could you please take a look at them and have them available again? Thank you very much!
This is brilliant, yes use a wire to the end of the spring so you dont lose it in the housing, also note that the pin on the lid case slides across so you dont need to bend the plastic lugs, Thanks everyone!!!
This is what's exactly wrong with my label maker. And I have hardly even use it. I'm not going through all that to fix it. Good on you man! Dymo -thanks for the shitty product.
God bless you sir well done video thank you for sharing the problem . I have the same problem with same model. i wish i can print it with a stronger material than plastic.
Okay. Here’s the deal. I have the SAME problem, and judging by the comments there are many out there pulling their hair out too. This is clearly an attempt by DYMO to build in obsolescence. If you don’t know the meaning of that word, look it up. It’s actually gangster-like for a big corporation like DYMO to try this trick on an unsuspecting public. Really disgusting. Believe me, DYMO know the problem and are fully aware on how to correct this design fault. But, and here’s the $64,000 question, imagine the drop in their profits. As long as there is very limited competition, these corporations will continue to manufacture goods with built in problems and therefore built in obsolescence. MF’ers.
there's a massive lawsuit between mcdonald's and Kytch right now over mcd's ice cream machines, the franchisees have always been responsible for repair costs and the vendor for the machines makes a few hundred million on repair costs every year going back decades. Kytch hacked the machines and found faulty code, mcd's and the icecream machine vendor actively conspired against Kytch and got hit with a $900 million lawsuit from them. Also reminds me of the lightbulb in some firehouse in San Fran, has been on for over a century. THANKS modern life, can't wait for my pod and bugs, I'll be here waiting while eating my domino's pizza I ordered with Klarna's four easy future payments of $4.99. Also my Dymo has the same problem :(
This video shows the ingredients that made our County great...good all ingenuity, patience, perseverance and the desire to know how things work. Unfortunately, those virtues are gone and the young are more concerned about genders, pronouns, diversity, equality and other pursuits that don't get things fixed or the job done. I call it the useless generation. This video shows us much more that fixing a label printer. Thank you!
The determination not to be defeated by planned failures is inspiring. You are me in another life. I was looking for any information on the exact same issue. I'm going to get that part.
"Do not subscribe!, do not "like"... I don't care...
You are me sir!
Really good video by the way. It worked for me. Instead of 3D printing I drilled a tiny hole next to the hole that broke. Seems to work. I’m 100% convinced this fault is planned obsolescence from DYMO.
i was thinking about this or use a strong glue
Thanks for this idea! The 3D printed piece doesn't seem available and I can't make it myself, so this is a great alternative!
It is incredible how poorly this part is designed, that so many people run into that issue. And we are just the few geeks that actually try to repair stuff. Thanks for the video, i'm currently sitting in front of my opened dymo with the same issue, trying to reinforce the cracked loop with glue, since I don't have a 3d printer. Wish me luck
Update: reinforced the part with tons of glue, hooking the spring back in was easier when you remove the silver pin instead of flexing the fork open that holds the pin. You can just push the pin out and push it back in. In the end, I had a few parts left-over that fell out, including a spring and some plastic pieces. But the dymo works great now, so I assume they were just decoration :P
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Truely, there are more ppl than "one person in the world", which find this video helpful. 3d model is just fine an resolved my issue. Thank you for the video and sharing your effort.
You are awesome! I strongly suspect that this is the exact same problem with my DYMO 160 LabelManager. As I neither have your technical skills nor your patience, I fixed the problem in a different way. Just found my 40+ years old dymo embosser label maker in the drawer - this will be my go to label maker going forward. Very low tech, made before planned obsolescence was invented and uses no batteries - I love it.
Thanks Christopher, had the same issue and thanks to your video I have now a fully functioning Dymo Labelmanager 160. Cheers Abdelhak. For the replacement part you made. I do not have a 3D printer and also the eye where the spring was fed tru beoke of so I derilled a new hole directly next to it straight in fresh plastic and works absolutely fine. Cheers
Thank you for taking the time to document this. I'll share my slight alteration to your fix that worked for me (and didn't require 3d printing). I took the smallest drill bit I could find (made for my dremel) and drilled a small hole behind the one that gave out. there is slighly more tension but it works perfectly now. Also the metal rod the spring attaches to (in the door) can be moved out with a pair of needle nose pliers. This makes the final assembly easier.
Thank you for this video and the 3D model - I was also unable to fix the original part and the 3D print came in handy.
Another piece of e-waste saved, for a while.
Great video! This is exactly the problem with my unit. Unfortunately, after 3/4 the way through, I realized that this is way too much work for me to take on. And, coincidentally, the same unit is currently on sale on Amazon for $40 and includes 3 tapes. For me, this is a replace versus fix. Kudos to you though!
Thanks for the video! Exactly my problem and now I know (unfortunately) how involved this repair will be!
I don't usually leave comments, but this deserves one! Big thank you!
Great Video! One recommendation to make life easier for anyone undertaking this repair. After you have attached the spring back to the actuator (the plastic armature inside the unit), tie a piece of thin wire to the other end of the spring and feed it through the hole to the lid. You can then pull the spring with the wire to get it over the pin in the lid, and when it's in place, simply pull the wire out.
Thank you! Looks like I'm the one guy having the exact same problem, haha. As soon as you mentioned the door spring, I looked in and saw it dangling there 😞. Hopefully I can revive it like you did!
Same problem. I see the spring when I open the door. I don’t think I have these kinds of skills. But thankfully after a little back and forth with Dymo, they’re sending me a replacement device. I didn’t have the receipt from 2.5 years ago, but they are replacing as a “goodwill gesture.” I guess I’ll just have to toss this one!
can i get the link for the replacement part pls?
Thanks for the video, pointed me to the right direction, tried to fix it using spring and gave up. Took piece of the label material bunched it up a bit and tucked it in between spot that pushes the label to print head. Little nudging and I can replace cartridges no problem.
Thank you Mr. Brown your video helped me fix my issue with Lable Jam
Thanks for your contribution. It has been difficul but the problem was solved thanks to you video!
I cut off the end of a wooden clothes hanger to use as a shim behind the print head, effectively bypassing the spring. It's crude, but it works - heck of a lot easier than disassembling the thing to going through what you did. If you use this approach, you have to make sure the shim is slim enough to only press against the actual support arm of the print head, and NOT against the actual swiveling portion, otherwise it will cam the swivel head and cause feed rate and printing issues.
Thank you for your video! This is exactly my problem as well. I was trying to access the links in the description for the 3D printed part, but the links do not work. Could you please take a look at them and have them available again? Thank you very much!
This is brilliant, yes use a wire to the end of the spring so you dont lose it in the housing, also note that the pin on the lid case slides across so you dont need to bend the plastic lugs, Thanks everyone!!!
I found this helpful! Cheers!
You made my day !
Thanks alot
Works for me.. thanks buddy
This is what's exactly wrong with my label maker. And I have hardly even use it. I'm not going through all that to fix it. Good on you man! Dymo -thanks for the shitty product.
God bless you sir well done video thank you for sharing the problem . I have the same problem with same model. i wish i can print it with a stronger material than plastic.
wwwwoooowww thank you so much for this video... it helps a lot promise...😊😊😊
Thank you. Same problem with mine.
Thank you!
Does anyone sell that spare part for the spring lever?
Thanks
i broke it :)) . Can you share the link to the part again please?
Were you able to get the link to the 3d printed part? I would like to have it as well
@@ob3463 sadly no :(
it's in the description of the video
@@ob3463 it's in the description of the video
Okay. Here’s the deal. I have the SAME problem, and judging by the comments there are many out there pulling their hair out too. This is clearly an attempt by DYMO to build in obsolescence. If you don’t know the meaning of that word, look it up. It’s actually gangster-like for a big corporation like DYMO to try this trick on an unsuspecting public. Really disgusting. Believe me, DYMO know the problem and are fully aware on how to correct this design fault. But, and here’s the $64,000 question, imagine the drop in their profits. As long as there is very limited competition, these corporations will continue to manufacture goods with built in problems and therefore built in obsolescence. MF’ers.
there's a massive lawsuit between mcdonald's and Kytch right now over mcd's ice cream machines, the franchisees have always been responsible for repair costs and the vendor for the machines makes a few hundred million on repair costs every year going back decades. Kytch hacked the machines and found faulty code, mcd's and the icecream machine vendor actively conspired against Kytch and got hit with a $900 million lawsuit from them.
Also reminds me of the lightbulb in some firehouse in San Fran, has been on for over a century.
THANKS modern life, can't wait for my pod and bugs, I'll be here waiting while eating my domino's pizza I ordered with Klarna's four easy future payments of $4.99.
Also my Dymo has the same problem :(
This video shows the ingredients that made our County great...good all ingenuity, patience, perseverance and the desire to know how things work. Unfortunately, those virtues are gone and the young are more concerned about genders, pronouns, diversity, equality and other pursuits that don't get things fixed or the job done. I call it the useless generation. This video shows us much more that fixing a label printer. Thank you!
This is a nightmare. Dymo is junk