Just got a bunch of Printers - Page 2

The metal shafts might be sellable on ebay as 'Round metal stock' for home hobbist engineers.



I save them up, along with the springs, the ribbon cables, i cut the Gold plated contact ends off the Gold ribbons, pluck the short shafts from the gear boxes out.
Any LEDs & Opto sensors get put aside to reclaim the Gold wire from ( one day..), any decient green boards, power boards get the Copper wire coils ripped out, any Optocouplers broken off & saved, any power Transistors plucked out & saved, fuses saved, any wire cut out,

If they have a scanning setup, i get the 'Light bar' & clean that down to its board, its got 160 Gold wires normally ( not a lot of weight, but...)
The sheet of glass put aside.
The bigger electric motors saved ( they are expensive to buy on TradeMe, haven't checked eBay prices ) other motors go into the 'electric motors/small transformers bin - i don't get much for a small drum, but i'd get nothing if i didnt...

All that stuff adds up but in the end it takes a lot of extra time to do. I cant sell the plastic here & i dont get anything for the metal either.

Printers are a PIA for me. Not much to them and takes more time & labor to break them down than they are worth so I leave them when there is nothing else to do. I have about 50 or so laser jets waiting to be gutted of goodies. The rest goes to shred.