Screws & Fasteners

• Silver Tapping Screws: Large pile of frame, chassis, and PCB mounting screws.

• Black Machine Screws & Clips: Darker mounting screws and retaining clips for internal sensors and plastic brackets.

Gears & Drive Components (White & Off-White Nylon)

• Compound / Double Drive Gears: Multi-tiered reduction gears used in the main drive train (connecting the motor to the fuser and feed assembly).

• Idler & Spur Gears: Various small white teeth gears designed to transfer motion between drive shafts.

• Toner Cartridge Link / Engagement Gear: Large stepped drive gear that meshes with the toner cartridge drive mechanism.

• Pickup / Feeder Cam Gears: Smaller gears with specialized hubs for engaging the paper pickup mechanism.

Plastic Arms, Levers & Brackets

• Black Actuator Arms & Sensor Flags: Black molded plastic levers used to trip optical paper-path sensors and interlock switches.

• White Paper Sensor Lever / Flag: Large white curved plastic arm with an integrated torsion wire spring that detects paper presence in the feed tray.

• Brackets & Bushings: Small white nylon bushings and pivot clips used to retain rotating shafts.

Springs & Hardware

• Torsion Wire Springs: Fine-wire springs attached to the sensor flags and paper guides to provide reset tension.

• Coil Tension / Compression Springs: Small steel helical springs used for maintaining pressure on paper feed rollers and drive engagement assemblies.

• Metal Grounding Pin / Pivot Shaft: Small cylindrical steel rod used as a pivot or grounding contact pin.