Enough building, time for demolition

RE: Enough building, time for demolition

funinalaska — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:38:57 GMT

Where I am I dont have access to yard sales or anything like that. In a town like this people dont hold on to anything very long at all other than cars, ATVs and Snowmobiles.

So I dont often get access to fun things to take apart.

The two printers I got are from a shipping container that was being emptied that was mostly full of old business paperwork for a business that was going under.

They are not that old, but still fun to dismantle.

Unfortunately other than LEDs, Switches, power supplies and stepper motors there doesnt seem to be much useful in them.

The one has a rediculuous high voltage board in it. I was surprised to see that.

RE: Enough building, time for demolition

DAB — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:16:16 GMT

A good engineer never outgrows the joy of taking things apart.

I go to garage sales and find a ton of neat little toys and older electronics that provide many hours of entertainment.

I am always amazed at how much you can learn about production techniques, component choices and the occasional bad design.

I especially like old printers. The movement stage has innumerable uses for controlling auto focusing cameras, panning, and tracking applications.

My newest toy is the Frenel lens off a 50-in projection TV. Once I get it mounted I look forward to melting all kinds of things with the sun.

I look forward to each season with hopes of finding a good score. Did I mention that I picked up a 600 USD check scanner for 5 USD?

It is amazing what people think is junk.

DAB

RE: Enough building, time for demolition

sqkybeaver — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:45:43 GMT

I always have an eye out for older used equipment, many come from surplus or the round file. there is the chance I can repair them and if not there are usually some cool parts inside.

I will never say no to taking an older computer, everything can be recycled or reused. the amount of aluminium and copper is reasonable. its not realy worth the time to strip the boards when a 1 Foot box full of motherboards only fetches $10. powersupply boards are better but the scrap guys here can't tell the diffrence.

leds from early 70s' are one of my best finds.