The register (ancient Casio) at the store tried to die last week, first on Monday, when I left briefly and returned to register not working, line up of customers, awesome staff person making do as best she could.
For some odd reason, removing the ink roller for the register tape made things work, eventually I put in a new roller and all was good for 24 hours when it died again. This time more seriously.
So we started taking it apart. A retired neighbour (engineer, unable to not help fix-it type) wandered in shortly after we started and was soon behind the counter with his fingers in things. We took the whole machine apart, lots of dirt (dead paper scraps etc.) in there, but everything we tried led nowhere.
Started putting it all back together again and I sure it was time for a new machine. But at the ultimate moment of despair (I on the other side of the counter) saw a red light (some sort of sensor) showing clearly that power was getting to the main works of the machine, AND there was a bit of dirt over top of it. Reached in with straw/brush/whatever and cleared that out and OMG the machine lived again. Helpful neighbour figured this light read something on some cam that turned to tell it how many times it had turned around.
We didn't care, just glad it lived for another day BUT researching a new cash register high on my list.
Anyway, if you have a dead cash register that dates back to the 20th century sometime, consider cleaning it and it could live again...
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