Big A** copy machines

I am now the owner of one black and white Works (6 years old) Next one turns on but does not work as was in a flood . it was a $7000 machine and 2 years old all in one item both are very clean. each weigh 200 or so I have moved heaver units that look the same size . On e bay I see no one really jumps on these machines even for a $1 . Before i destroy - any last words (reprieve) on a better salvage direction . I might keep the B/W unit. But guys I am busting at the seams with stuff . I am gaining a little with cleaning up but now I have these new baby's.

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I have 3 to pick up, there older but weight a Sh** load. I would be interested in what you get out of it. I'm sure they should have good boards and alot of little motors. But there a pain to move. I'm going to pick up atleast one of them next week.

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Originally Posted by Copper Head

Before i destroy - any last words (reprieve) on a better salvage direction

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if the machine is industrial strength, and if you have any small quickie print shops, mailboxes etc. type places, any storefront graphic arts type places where they might offer a hodgepodge of printed key rings, t-shirt printing, wedding invitations....a lot of those type guys lease copy machines and pay per impression, and they overwork their machines and they're constantly getting service. Some of them might be interested in a low cost backup machine.

EDIT: I missed the part about them turning on but not working....so nevermind....go for the hammer....

One works , other not , I once had 2 of same size (about) but really heavy 600 lb and 500 I remember cause i got good money on the weight as is $67 and $53 I was like WOW when you take them apart your gain is some wire some motors , the time it takes to tear down a printer and find some small motors and wire and now that you took apart the plastic that you can't really sell to them any more (with out looking dishonest) Some of the older ones have strong steel frames these don't , The boards are supposed to be high grade . but the loss of plastic weight nullifies the gain , I can pull the boards.

I bet - put a new board in & I bet it works.

I guess it really depends on how much time you want to spend on it and how much of it that you can actually turn a profit on.

I am a very small time operation. And I do not have much in the way of constant flow of merchandise coming in, nor very much in the way of stuff stored up. In my case. I would break it all the way down to the screws in my spare time. However, I can recycle every single piece off of any printer for a profit. At this time the only things that I can't profit from are CRT Glass ( including the small tubes from projection screen tv's) and Alkaline Batteries. So just about everything gets torn down to its very basic components.

Also, after reading your post again, I would definitely try to re-sell the printer that works and during a set amount of time (approximately 3 months) to sell the working printer, I would keep the non working one, so if the good printer didnt sell, I could process and scrap them both at the same time.

A friend told me, that his brother (tru story) is a photocopy repair tech.

He said that his brother told him that as copy machines are business items & must work 100%, 100% of the time.
To do that they are programmed to shut down for service every so many copys & they are overbuilt & under the rated output.

ie, the machine shuts down at something like 85% of the possible output of 100% quality copys for servicing.

With the right codes, the machine will start up & run the last 15% of the copys. Thats at 100% quality. After that the machine will still go on to do as much as another 30% more than what it was made to do in the first place.

Add in the free parts, such as toner, belts & drums etc & the machine can do as much as 200% more over time with the odd unofficial servicing, for very little expense.

It might pay to ask around to find a copy service tech with some spare time up his sleeve.
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In my experience metal engineering workshops like old photocopiers, they can copy off drawings, shoot them out to the workshop & they don't have to worry about damaging the drawings with dirt, sparks & fire.

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Originally Posted by eesakiwi

It might pay to ask around to find a copy service tech with some spare time up his sleeve.

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there's a copy tech forum with many thousands of members