{"id":77654,"date":"2025-02-08T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=77654"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:06:17","slug":"back-in-bijou-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/08\/back-in-bijou-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Bijou Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My much-loved, rarely used<\/strong> Risograph machine started making some troubling noises not long after I finished up Pink Mince<\/em> #17<\/a>, and effectively stopped working at all. I was pretty sure from the sound of things that it was mechanical trouble, and I had no idea how to even begin tinkering with such a complicated machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happily, I finally found someone \u2014 kind of an itinerant Riso repairman \u2014 who was able to come by and show me how to properly open up the machine and understand how to access and replace the worn-out parts. He did most of the work (thankfully, because it was terrifying to see so many exposed electronics and moving parts), and made sure I at least knew how to handle the remaining details on my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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With the most critical repairs finally completed, I was blessed to get to work on a long-overdue piece I\u2019d been planning \u2014 the first Bijou Type<\/a> specimen! For as long as they last, I’ll happily send one out for every order made at the Bijou web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My much-loved, rarely used Risograph machine started making some troubling noises not long after I finished up Pink Mince #17, and effectively stopped working at all. I was pretty sure from the sound of things that it was mechanical trouble, and I had no idea how to even begin tinkering with such a complicated machine. … Continue reading “Back in Bijou Business”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77659,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77654\/revisions\/77659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}