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Even the lowest volume printer fusers can be worth fixing— the PE16 and PE120 fusers are good examples. An easy-to-disassemble module, it’d be a shame to throw one away for just having a worn out heat roller or worse, a broken fuser drive gear. The parts are available and affordable, so let’s get cracking. We’ll start with a bit of a comparison between our two subjects (PE16 fusers vs. PE120 fuser), cover some of the crossover models, part numbers and other such details, and walk through stripping one of them down.

Xerox PE16 Fuser Module

The two versions of the fusers are PE16 and PE120, which you will find have nearly identical disassembly procedures. Some parts do cross over back and forth, but not all of them. The Fuser Lamps are the same as one another and the Thermistor and Thermal Fuse too, but that is about where the part crossovers end. The Heat Roll on the PE16 is very small compared to the PE120 version (and therefore the Heat Roll Bushings and Fuser Drive Gear are also different). The Pressure Roll is dimensionally the same. Oddly however the outer sleeves are designed differently. The PE120 is one with that now familiar black-sleeve over orange-foam which gets all wrinkly even in a brand new fuser. The PE16 has a sleeved all orange silicon roll. If I had to guess, the two Pressure Rollers are probably interchangeable in spite of their design differences, but I’ve not tested the theory yet. The Picker Fingers look very similar one to another; however if you compare them closely, the PE120 version is a little bit shorter than the PE16 version. They have plastic claws, but there is a coated-metal cladding clipped onto them which actually makes contact with the heat roll and handles stripping the paper from the roller.

Photo # 1 – Orientation

There are an abundant number of other makes / models which cross over to the PE16. Likewise, a few cross to the PE120. This makes the fusers even more worthy of our attention (learn one, learn them all). Here’s a quick list of some of the models we have found to cross over:

PE16 Fusers—makes / models which share the same parts:

Gestetner – DSM-516PF, F250, F270, F290

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