Noisy mx860 printer

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Just inherited a used mx860 with not much printing time on it but was allowed to get a little dusty. This thing makes horrendous squeal sounds when it first starts up and then when it is going through its cleaning cycles or whatever its doing. Even when printing it is making the same noise. It seems to print just fine whether Im printing from the cassette or the rear tray. Im thinking its in the rollers but which ones Im not sure and Im also not sure how to go about cleaning where the rollers are spinning on their shafts. Does someone out there know how to do this or possibly have some instructions on how to do this. I just dont want to put a drop of oil at all roller junctions at their shaft. Or is there something else going on here that I am not picking up on?
Thanx!!
 
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I have same problem.
I have kept my old MX860 r
hope there will be some nice soul who knows how to solve this problem

VERY NOISY CANON MX860
DID YOU EVER HAVE ONE?
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SOLVE VERY NOISY PROBLEM?
Squeals, bangs, knocks before printing some pages. Not when actually printing.

I am also going to post this as new item in hopes someone finally responds
 
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No reason for screaming :)

Maybe the printhead has some difficulties to start moving, did you try to clean/lubricate the rail ?
Cleaning the timing belt would help too.
 
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I once had a little Epson I think it was a C60 but can't remember now and it started to rattle, hiss and howl just like it was about to fall apart all the time when it was powered on, it was pitiful to listen too.

But it didn’t and it did that for years, because it had so many different noises I just didn’t know where to start diagnosing the problem to fix it, I eventually replaced with it iP4300 after it had printed about 25,000 sheets.

So my advice is if it’s working ok then just leave it alone and put up with the racket, at least you’ll know when it’s working..
 
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