Re: ATM Scavanging laser printers

[Bob Bond <rgb@ncube.com>]

I found a very nice stepping motor in an HP inkjet printer.  I used it to
make a spinning shutter to use in a vain attempt to see the Crab's central
star strobe.  Need aperature for that one!  Got some nice machined
stainless steel shafts, a power supply, etc too.

                        Bob

At 11:03 AM 9/21/98 -0500, Taras Masnyk wrote:
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>Walking down the hall today, I found a laser printer with an allegedly bad
>power supply, just sitting on the floor with a note : "Environmental
>services please throw this away".  Thinking of all the gears inside, I
>helped my local cleaning crew.....
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>My question(s) is (are)- Does anyone know if the motors inside laser
>printers (Hewlett Packard LaserJet) are stepping motors? If not, are they
>still useful for ATM applications? Anyone tried using gears from a laser
>printer- are they useful? Any other parts spring to mind as useful?
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>If nothing else, at least I'll have fun ripping the thing apart; hopefully
>I'vew found a surplus-shop worth of trinkets to play with.
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>Comments please, by e-mail or to the list, as deemed appropriate
>
>Taras Masnyk
>tmasnyk@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
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