I have this same printer, still running, got it from my high school when I was a kid, and with the network card in it, it's hooked to my wifi router as a wireless printer, works flawlessly (after a new paper feed roller kit) and the toner cartridges are $10 bucks on Ebay. Even if you fixed it up it's still quite a useful printer!
I'd love to see a Ben Heck teardown/salvage mini-series: an old laptop, an old cassette deck, receiver, etc. Everyone encounters these old machines, but few know all the hidden treasures that might be inside!
It'll have deeper problems. I work in a school and have those printers too. They get a lot of abuse and eventually the little rubber wheels in it stop gripping paper properly. The paper jam is probably a symptom of a larger problem. These are not like crap cheap injket printers that are disposable :-)
The best way to reuse a LARGE HP printer is to fix it and put it back in service. With a little TLC the HP LaserJet 4, 5, and 4000 series will run forever.
I'm always amazed by the mindblowing engineering that is used inside these machines. The electronics, switches, springs, screws, motors, forms and weird shapes of plastic elements, the number of parts etc. Nice blob on the LCD PCB, must be Japanese? How many engineers design such device? How many pages is the paper of design? Must be crazy. Love to see the ABS recycle machine.
Yea as soon as I heard him say µH I had to pause it and hope someone else in for comments noticed that as well. Two totally different critters there Ben.
I literally just finished taking a laser printer apart. Got tons of good parts from it. I also made the mistake of pulling out the drum with toner in it from the toner cartridge. I don't recommend doing that. Toner EVERYWHERE!
I like your video very much and it is very useful that you also encourage people to READ the datasheets of the stuff they found of the salvaged parts. Congrats Ben!
Ben JI indeed I want to see one build too. hopefully he can build one with a bit more commonly available parts so more people can hop onto basic fillament extrusion. It's gona be hard to keep it air bubble free and keep the fillament thickness even.
Ben JI The problem is you need a lot of torque to cut so you need a metal shredder and the shredder needs to be able to pull the part in and not have enough space so it can grind small enough. Then for the extrusion you need a lot of pressure and also have to find a way to get the airbubbles out of the extrusion. And yes in the end you would use a nozzle :).
every shop that does plastic injection moulding has a grinder that they use to grind down the rejects, sprues and other plastic waste and blend with the virgin plastic. Cuts down material and waste disposal costs. They tend to keep colours separate unless you have a hidden part and do not care if it is a blend of various colours. You often see this recycled plastic inside products.
Nice, I just teared down a laser printer few weeks ago. It was a crap Samsung that was clearly designed to fail. I had no idea how to control the laser or the motors, they had like 10 pin connectors. I still have 3 boxes full of loot left, most is sexy black plastic. (This poor town hasn't got plastic recycling anywhere and garbage disposal wants big bucks to take this) Would be cool to see some projects with these parts. I also aquired similiar worm motor and laser unit. My thing only has 4 sides instead of hexagonal.
I stripped down a shredder for parts. I claimed some nice gears, metal rods, switches, lots of self tapping screws and a motor. I was a lot less gentle on the plastic using snips and a saw. Most of the plastic went into my council recycling bin, except for the large flat sheets which I've saved for future projects
In my 3D printing class at my University, we are making a grinder/ extruder (specifically for PLA, but ABS would work too on a different temperature). It is very close to being ready but the extruder wasn't getting hot enough. We are planning to use it to reuse scraps from previous prints (it really adds up), and failed prints.
That's a good idea. I work on lexmark printers and their fuser temp is 180*C/356*F which is about the correct temp for PLA and ABS extrusion. I also liked how Ben pulled out the fuser and said "What the heck is this?" :)
To make an extruder for ABS plastic granules you could use a hopper with a archemidies screw to apply pressure to force the granules into the hot end. Hopefully resulting in a controlled and open ended way to feed granules into the filament extruder. The other way I could think of was to use a syringe method, however that is not open ended, and you would need to reset and open the syringe to fill with granules.
Think of the good old bench mounted mincer, but with the archemidies screw vertical not horizontal (as you probably want to have the hot end fed from the top). In fact with modifications to the hopper you could probably modify one to do this. You could probably pick one up from a thrift store for a couple of bucks
My family has been doing injection molding for decades, and we have a grinder that we use for grinding down sprue so it can be reused. Been looking for an extruder to push some of the bits through to make some filament.
+CowLunch Possible lead solder. Stay in a well ventilated room and try not to breathe the fumes. Use a fume extractor or a small fan to keep the fumes away from you.
i think he will find its ir, mine has a warning label saying warning invisible laser radiation, but then again my cd player said that and you could see it... I think the early ir ones were a lot of ir and a little red, so if you looked at them you mistakenly thought they were weak...
lez briddon Yeah that's what I was thinking, I've also taken apart a CD player but didn't see anything when I powered the laser..boo..lasers are awesome.
Hi Ben, yet another nice video and informative, keep up the good work. I got a question? all the motors you're salvaging from the printer could be of various sizes and of various powers (like one is of 2.5V-2.0A-1.8/Step, other one is 1.6V-2.1A-1.8/Step). For example if I got the above motors and wishes to use them in a CNC. 1) Can I use these various power motors in one system? 2) What sort of driver/power supply would I require? Thanks in advance for answering this novice question.
For those who don't know, printers are actually no different then computers. Some big commercial printers use hard drives but most use flash memory. They also have RAM and use an IP address. The only difference really is instead of a screen it uses paper.
The black box filled with epoxy is probably a capacitor/diode chain used to boost voltage. High voltage is used to induce charge on the drum, charge the toner oppositely, and to pull (transfer) the toner off of the drum. Many of the most essential parts are actually in the toner cartridge.
I've been free hand melt and sculpting that type of plastic, i think it helps breath new life into old plastic or at least be made less brittle by melting a little bit of a softer plastic, such as plastic baggies, shrink wrap, or even hot glue
I hope that the printer was actually "dead". It would be a shame to have scraped it for parts if the only thing wrong was the paper jam, or some other minor maintenance issue.
Most plastics can be recycled and repurposed, including ABS for 3D printing. Little known fact is that there has been a federal mandate for decades to include a minimum of 10% post consumer recycled plastic into any new product manufacturing and production, including such products as food and water bottles. The obstacle in recycling any kind of plastic, is the equipment, machinery, land and power required. It is not just ground up and extruded. A very small recycling plant producing 200 lbs an hour can require as much as 2 acres of property and a 480V 2000 Amp 3 phase service. Here's why: The process starts with washing the recyclables in a hot bath before or during grinding to remove the first layer of impurities, using a 100-300 hp hi speed wet tank 2 blade grinder. The second bath is caustic, using a catalyst, to remove the second layer of impurities, mostly old additives like anti-block, anti-slip, etc. A new batched recipe of additives is then mixed into the ground plastic, or "fluff". Then, the fluff needs to be dried using gas furnaces and dry air vortex silos, because any moisture introduced by wet fluff into the extruder, turns to steam, causing the 2 inch thick steel barrel to explode and screw flights to break in the 400-600 degree F process heat. A minimum of 200 hp dc motor, large 17:1 gearbox and a 10-20 foot barrel and screw is needed to turn the extruder screw and push the ground plastic through a mold, since plastic is extremely dense and slow to melt at high heats, utilizing a small variation of 2 degree F delta 400-600 degree throughout the barrel length depending on type of plastic. Extruded plastic is the quick chilled thru a cold chilled process water bath; in which the water temp can not rise above 60 F after passing 400-600 F degree plastic into it or the extruded plastic will not cure. This requires at-least a 1000-2000 gallon process water tower or a 50-200 ton refrigeration chiller, a 500 gallon split tank triple 60 hp pump station, and a 1000 gallon chilled water pump trough. Finally, the plastic needs to be treated with an anti-static since plastic holds an enormous amount of static after being melted and extruded, a process that requires an open air short circuit AC current at 480V and 16 kilohertz (yes, 16,000 hertz cycle) that the extruded plastic passes through, which then creates an ozone emission that has to be evacuated and eliminated via blowers and gas furnace (also a federal mandate) because of emission and health hazards. If it is not treated, the plastic printer sticks will not unroll, unpack, or load individually, making them useless in a printer application, and can also moderately shock unprotected hands. Ultimately, it can be done... And many do, but as a business since the process requires mucho money, resources and property. I designed and manufactured many industrial manufacturing lines for thermoplastics industry in the past three decades. BTW... Love your channel and informative content.
Fuser run on mains voltage. it's a halogen bulb like in a work light, but a special coating that makes it emit IR radiation, heating the drum, also may be usable for SMD soldering.
That odd boxie type part at 3:14 , i think that's the thingie that heats the coil, oh yeah it's called the fuser assembly - Bonds toner to paper with heat; well if it's not the fuser assembly it's the scanner, some of those printers have a fax function... i was hoping you would say that about the multiplexer or duplexer those are some of the cooler sounding parts for laser printers XD
Certain parts of the plastic and metal housing can be re-used for building boxes/containers for your projects, especially if you don't have access to a 3D printer. Don't get rid of anything, until you are sure you can't re-use it.
That HP laser printer looks verrrry cheap compared to similar ones I used to work on for Lanier (Now Ricoh). A printer that size weighed a heck of a lot.. they felt like blocks of cement. It was pretty fun learning how all those printers and copy machines worked.
Would there be any issues with grinding down the ABS plastic from existing products considering some products are using Bromide in them for fire retardation?
Don't get rid of the cheesy openings. Of all the boring instructional videos out there, adding some humor in there makes learning all of this stuff way more fun.
Good luck using the laser unit for anything related to drawing an image. First off, the laser is near-infrared - so it's darn bright, but you cannot easily see it, so watch out! - Also, do calculations on the duty cycle - you would need an extremely bright laser to put enough light out to draw anything visible.
Hilarious. I love seeing adults behaving like 5yr olds. Thank God there are still some folk like you around. Were any ironing boards harmed in the making of this video??
If you want some really tasty bits, tear down a full size copier! I know that Canon machines use some pretty high quality parts. I have a storage unit full of salvaged office machine parts!
Some of the Canon machines are built like tanks and will run and run like the GP405 and the iR2200 series, but others were the biggest steaming pile of cow shit I have ever seen namely the iR3100c series!
That’s no “worm gear” it’s known as a, “helical gear”. They were created as a replacement for regular gears which are very noisy... the helical gear accomplishes the same drive motion but makes much less noise with decreased backlash... it was developed for manual transmissions since they were noisy... the best way to illustrate is to listen to your reverse gears compared to the drive gears... the reverse gear is still a normal cut gear... it makes a noticeable audible difference.
You know, if you ude you're 30 year old ABS you could still use onepart of the old and one part of the "newer" ABS in the Grinder to mix them to a "working" ABS mix ;) Maybe
This could not have come at a better time. My parents just threw out an old inkjet printer. It had similar workings (minus the laser, of course!), including that Hitachi display. I'm super excited to start playing with that display with my Raspberry Pi. Also, what pinball machine layout is that in the background of some of the shots?
That would have been funny if it was just a simple paper jam was why they threw it out. And then you go and rip apart a working laser printer completely to salvage pieces!!! :-) hehe
I have this same printer, still running, got it from my high school when I was a kid, and with the network card in it, it's hooked to my wifi router as a wireless printer, works flawlessly (after a new paper feed roller kit) and the toner cartridges are $10 bucks on Ebay. Even if you fixed it up it's still quite a useful printer!
I'd love to see a Ben Heck teardown/salvage mini-series: an old laptop, an old cassette deck, receiver, etc. Everyone encounters these old machines, but few know all the hidden treasures that might be inside!
The only problem was a paper jam! X-D
It'll have deeper problems. I work in a school and have those printers too. They get a lot of abuse and eventually the little rubber wheels in it stop gripping paper properly. The paper jam is probably a symptom of a larger problem.
These are not like crap cheap injket printers that are disposable :-)
Good show. That was quite a few parts saved from that gigantic laser printer. Thanks for sharing.
The intro skit is so bad its good
i found it 'sooooo cheeeessseeee'
NickBlackDIN Cheese, yum.
*****
common eec, were not all work and no play. lighten up a bit, get out there, embarrass yourself a bit, then laugh it off. it's quite fun ^.^
***** Indeed, it is the only reason i don't watch ben heck. It is geared towards the more younger audience.
No its just bad
Anytime you say "is that the laser?" you're supposed to jump up, scream, slap your hand to your face and scream "my eye!!".
It's required.
The best way to reuse a LARGE HP printer is to fix it and put it back in service. With a little TLC the HP LaserJet 4, 5, and 4000 series will run forever.
Indeed, they often say that cockroaches and ants would be the only animals to survive a nuke but at least they would have a HP 4L to use afterwards!
My college is still using 4100Ns in multiple labs and they work flawlessly!
Aside from the amazing tech coverage, I love the energy on the show. The humor and humility.
9:30 looks like a great project! But consider all the energy and heat required to break the material...
I'm always amazed by the mindblowing engineering that is used inside these machines. The electronics, switches, springs, screws, motors, forms and weird shapes of plastic elements, the number of parts etc. Nice blob on the LCD PCB, must be Japanese? How many engineers design such device? How many pages is the paper of design? Must be crazy. Love to see the ABS recycle machine.
I'm an HP service tech, I work on these things all the time.. Gotta say it was pretty funny watching you take this apart. Lol
I am a hardware and PC tech for a school district where I do this thing every day. I also found it entertaining
Sounds about right lol
LMAO at that intro!
But seriously, I wish Ben had (more?) "up"cycling projects.
capacitor: "1000 µH" Uhum, caps have farads, not henries!
parallel plate inductor ftw :P
Yea as soon as I heard him say µH I had to pause it and hope someone else in for comments noticed that as well. Two totally different critters there Ben.
Ah good ole Laserjet 4000 Series. A true tank of the laser printer world. Great opening skit! I miss Alison.
I literally just finished taking a laser printer apart. Got tons of good parts from it. I also made the mistake of pulling out the drum with toner in it from the toner cartridge. I don't recommend doing that. Toner EVERYWHERE!
Another vote from me to work on an ABS grinder/extruder!
I like your video very much and it is very useful that you also encourage people to READ the datasheets of the stuff they found of the salvaged parts. Congrats Ben!
Did you ever go anywhere with the ABS to filament machine in a future episode?
Not a worm gear, a helical gear. Used to reduce vibration and make for a smoother transfer of power.
there are commercially available grinder and extruder kits ben :)
I think there are also build plans for free.
There is filamaker and filabot for one.
year there is but it would be a good project for ben to do
Or just give it to the Will it blend guy with his indestructible blender.
Ben JI indeed I want to see one build too. hopefully he can build one with a bit more commonly available parts so more people can hop onto basic fillament extrusion. It's gona be hard to keep it air bubble free and keep the fillament thickness even.
it seems pretty easy to make one
my ideas melt the pla abs-then extrude
it out of a 3d printer nozzel
Ben JI The problem is you need a lot of torque to cut so you need a metal shredder and the shredder needs to be able to pull the part in and not have enough space so it can grind small enough.
Then for the extrusion you need a lot of pressure and also have to find a way to get the airbubbles out of the extrusion.
And yes in the end you would use a nozzle :).
every shop that does plastic injection moulding has a grinder that they use to grind down the rejects, sprues and other plastic waste and blend with the virgin plastic. Cuts down material and waste disposal costs. They tend to keep colours separate unless you have a hidden part and do not care if it is a blend of various colours. You often see this recycled plastic inside products.
Nice, I just teared down a laser printer few weeks ago. It was a crap Samsung that was clearly designed to fail.
I had no idea how to control the laser or the motors, they had like 10 pin connectors.
I still have 3 boxes full of loot left, most is sexy black plastic. (This poor town hasn't got plastic recycling anywhere and garbage disposal wants big bucks to take this)
Would be cool to see some projects with these parts. I also aquired similiar worm motor and laser unit. My thing only has 4 sides instead of hexagonal.
I stripped down a shredder for parts. I claimed some nice gears, metal rods, switches, lots of self tapping screws and a motor. I was a lot less gentle on the plastic using snips and a saw. Most of the plastic went into my council recycling bin, except for the large flat sheets which I've saved for future projects
I love the saying, "the warning label tells you where the good stuff is". +++
In my 3D printing class at my University, we are making a grinder/ extruder (specifically for PLA, but ABS would work too on a different temperature). It is very close to being ready but the extruder wasn't getting hot enough. We are planning to use it to reuse scraps from previous prints (it really adds up), and failed prints.
Does the fuser output enough heat to be the heat source for an ABS recycler?
You know thats a good question Could use the parts from the printer to make a Abs grinder project.
That's a good idea. I work on lexmark printers and their fuser temp is 180*C/356*F which is about the correct temp for PLA and ABS extrusion. I also liked how Ben pulled out the fuser and said "What the heck is this?" :)
GlassCurtain I hope Ben see's these comments i want to see what he can do with his idea.
There should be an humidity sensor somewhere in the printer..or not? I found it in a similar laser printer...
"precious plastic" is an opensource project that recycles plastic. they are super good
To make an extruder for ABS plastic granules you could use a hopper with a archemidies screw to apply pressure to force the granules into the hot end. Hopefully resulting in a controlled and open ended way to feed granules into the filament extruder. The other way I could think of was to use a syringe method, however that is not open ended, and you would need to reset and open the syringe to fill with granules.
Think of the good old bench mounted mincer, but with the archemidies screw vertical not horizontal (as you probably want to have the hot end fed from the top). In fact with modifications to the hopper you could probably modify one to do this. You could probably pick one up from a thrift store for a couple of bucks
Also would be cool to try and use laser unit to do 3D printing, a selective laser sintering build might be interesting
Ben, what about a mechanical point of view? I took my old printer apart and the metal rods and plastic gearing have been so useful
just curious how do know that these parts function correctly do you need to find the electrical schematics to know what the outputs should be.
Nice video, I have 2 old printers lying around and I thought about salvaging parts from them.
What is the output power of the laser
I'd like to see a show on the recycling those abs pieces!
My family has been doing injection molding for decades, and we have a grinder that we use for grinding down sprue so it can be reused. Been looking for an extruder to push some of the bits through to make some filament.
of course there is ram, how would it store the image then print it?
Is there anything I should be wary of when desoldering reclaimed parts?
+CowLunch Possible lead solder. Stay in a well ventilated room and try not to breathe the fumes. Use a fume extractor or a small fan to keep the fumes away from you.
Hay Ben how about making the lazer and mirrors into a pink floyd lazer show!!
Does the laser emit visible light?
i think he will find its ir, mine has a warning label saying warning invisible laser radiation, but then again my cd player said that and you could see it... I think the early ir ones were a lot of ir and a little red, so if you looked at them you mistakenly thought they were weak...
lez briddon Yeah that's what I was thinking, I've also taken apart a CD player but didn't see anything when I powered the laser..boo..lasers are awesome.
Hi Ben, yet another nice video and informative, keep up the good work.
I got a question? all the motors you're salvaging from the printer could be of various sizes and of various powers (like one is of 2.5V-2.0A-1.8/Step, other one is 1.6V-2.1A-1.8/Step).
For example if I got the above motors and wishes to use them in a CNC.
1) Can I use these various power motors in one system?
2) What sort of driver/power supply would I require?
Thanks in advance for answering this novice question.
Wow, that's a pretty good Sean Connery right there :)
To me; Laser + high speed spinning mirrors = chaos & loss of sight. :)
For those who don't know, printers are actually no different then computers. Some big commercial printers use hard drives but most use flash memory. They also have RAM and use an IP address. The only difference really is instead of a screen it uses paper.
The black box filled with epoxy is probably a capacitor/diode chain used to boost voltage. High voltage is used to induce charge on the drum, charge the toner oppositely, and to pull (transfer) the toner off of the drum. Many of the most essential parts are actually in the toner cartridge.
ABS can be recycled with acetone into pourable (mold) plastic and tool dip.
nice job curious about the laser hope see them in your projects soon
have you heard about the Filabot? it makes fillament from abs shavings/pellets.
YES!! A Futurama reference! Ben, you need to engineer a fing-longer.
Ben you could dissolve the ABS using MEK solvent then extrude it into filament if that is what you want.
I've been free hand melt and sculpting that type of plastic, i think it helps breath new life into old plastic or at least be made less brittle by melting a little bit of a softer plastic, such as plastic baggies, shrink wrap, or even hot glue
I cannot wait to see the ABS Grinder/Melter/Extruder all-in-one :)
Oh wow, that looks exactly like my old laser printer at work... it's on its last legs already
I really want to see the ABS extruder project!
I hope that the printer was actually "dead". It would be a shame to have scraped it for parts if the only thing wrong was the paper jam, or some other minor maintenance issue.
Could you use the laser to make a laser sintering 3d printer? Bit of a tall order methinks
Most plastics can be recycled and repurposed, including ABS for 3D printing. Little known fact is that there has been a federal mandate for decades to include a minimum of 10% post consumer recycled plastic into any new product manufacturing and production, including such products as food and water bottles. The obstacle in recycling any kind of plastic, is the equipment, machinery, land and power required. It is not just ground up and extruded. A very small recycling plant producing 200 lbs an hour can require as much as 2 acres of property and a 480V 2000 Amp 3 phase service. Here's why:
The process starts with washing the recyclables in a hot bath before or during grinding to remove the first layer of impurities, using a 100-300 hp hi speed wet tank 2 blade grinder. The second bath is caustic, using a catalyst, to remove the second layer of impurities, mostly old additives like anti-block, anti-slip, etc. A new batched recipe of additives is then mixed into the ground plastic, or "fluff". Then, the fluff needs to be dried using gas furnaces and dry air vortex silos, because any moisture introduced by wet fluff into the extruder, turns to steam, causing the 2 inch thick steel barrel to explode and screw flights to break in the 400-600 degree F process heat. A minimum of 200 hp dc motor, large 17:1 gearbox and a 10-20 foot barrel and screw is needed to turn the extruder screw and push the ground plastic through a mold, since plastic is extremely dense and slow to melt at high heats, utilizing a small variation of 2 degree F delta 400-600 degree throughout the barrel length depending on type of plastic. Extruded plastic is the quick chilled thru a cold chilled process water bath; in which the water temp can not rise above 60 F after passing 400-600 F degree plastic into it or the extruded plastic will not cure. This requires at-least a 1000-2000 gallon process water tower or a 50-200 ton refrigeration chiller, a 500 gallon split tank triple 60 hp pump station, and a 1000 gallon chilled water pump trough. Finally, the plastic needs to be treated with an anti-static since plastic holds an enormous amount of static after being melted and extruded, a process that requires an open air short circuit AC current at 480V and 16 kilohertz (yes, 16,000 hertz cycle) that the extruded plastic passes through, which then creates an ozone emission that has to be evacuated and eliminated via blowers and gas furnace (also a federal mandate) because of emission and health hazards. If it is not treated, the plastic printer sticks will not unroll, unpack, or load individually, making them useless in a printer application, and can also moderately shock unprotected hands.
Ultimately, it can be done... And many do, but as a business since the process requires mucho money, resources and property. I designed and manufactured many industrial manufacturing lines for thermoplastics industry in the past three decades.
BTW... Love your channel and informative content.
Fuser run on mains voltage. it's a halogen bulb like in a work light, but a special coating that makes it emit IR radiation, heating the drum, also may be usable for SMD soldering.
That odd boxie type part at 3:14 , i think that's the thingie that heats the coil, oh yeah it's called the fuser assembly - Bonds toner to paper with heat; well if it's not the fuser assembly it's the scanner, some of those printers have a fax function... i was hoping you would say that about the multiplexer or duplexer those are some of the cooler sounding parts for laser printers XD
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Certain parts of the plastic and metal housing can be re-used for building boxes/containers for your projects, especially if you don't have access to a 3D printer. Don't get rid of anything, until you are sure you can't re-use it.
Nice to see someone ripping a HP printer apart. I did notice no mention of the JetDirect card though?
Did you discharge those caps :/
That HP laser printer looks verrrry cheap compared to similar ones I used to work on for Lanier (Now Ricoh). A printer that size weighed a heck of a lot.. they felt like blocks of cement. It was pretty fun learning how all those printers and copy machines worked.
8:08 You can still find gold in the ground. It's not hard to find if you're in the right area.
I almost fell out of my seat when I saw the printer, becuase I realized IT'S THE SAME ONES WE HAVE IN OUR SCHOOL!
I'm not that technical but this treasure hunt looks fun
7:50 Thats the best Sean Connery impersonation I've ever heard. Lmao
Agilent used to be a measurement company. Now, the measurement division of "the good old HP" is called keysight.
Would there be any issues with grinding down the ABS plastic from existing products considering some products are using Bromide in them for fire retardation?
Don't get rid of the cheesy openings. Of all the boring instructional videos out there, adding some humor in there makes learning all of this stuff way more fun.
He does electronics and says what is that? when he takes the fuser out. Lol
Good luck using the laser unit for anything related to drawing an image. First off, the laser is near-infrared - so it's darn bright, but you cannot easily see it, so watch out! - Also, do calculations on the duty cycle - you would need an extremely bright laser to put enough light out to draw anything visible.
Hilarious. I love seeing adults behaving like 5yr olds. Thank God there are still some folk like you around. Were any ironing boards harmed in the making of this video??
You should do a project only using reclaimed parts :D
If you want some really tasty bits, tear down a full size copier! I know that Canon machines use some pretty high quality parts. I have a storage unit full of salvaged office machine parts!
Some of the Canon machines are built like tanks and will run and run like the GP405 and the iR2200 series, but others were the biggest steaming pile of cow shit I have ever seen namely the iR3100c series!
Who knew Phil Collins is Earth Man? :-)
That’s no “worm gear” it’s known as a, “helical gear”. They were created as a replacement for regular gears which are very noisy... the helical gear accomplishes the same drive motion but makes much less noise with decreased backlash... it was developed for manual transmissions since they were noisy... the best way to illustrate is to listen to your reverse gears compared to the drive gears... the reverse gear is still a normal cut gear... it makes a noticeable audible difference.
Virgin plastic works better than regrind. Oils and accelerants have to be added back to it in order to get a good flow.
The plastic grind should be made it sounds awesome
one of those big springs would be handy for my x52....
wheres the part now for the plastic to filament stuff :D ... dont worry but would be very nice and im waiting more then two years now lol
The Laser Printer is "kaputt"? :D
"Kaputt" means broken in german
You know, if you ude you're 30 year old ABS you could still use onepart of the old and one part of the "newer" ABS in the Grinder to mix them to a "working" ABS mix ;)
Maybe
an schematics of a circuit that let you use opto sensors with a microcontroller would be great
This could not have come at a better time. My parents just threw out an old inkjet printer. It had similar workings (minus the laser, of course!), including that Hitachi display. I'm super excited to start playing with that display with my Raspberry Pi.
Also, what pinball machine layout is that in the background of some of the shots?
Stumbled upon this by accident, I have absolutely NO interest nor knowledge in this stuff but found it really interesting, good stuff.
You guys are awesome and hilarious. Keep up the good work.
A capacitor measured in henries? It's quite unusual, uh? LOL! ;)
I thought he was gonna say that he liked Donatello because he was the techie, nerdy one, but OK I guess him having a stick is cool I guess.
That would have been funny if it was just a simple paper jam was why they threw it out. And then you go and rip apart a working laser printer completely to salvage pieces!!! :-) hehe
To big capacitor is measured in micro henrys ? Not
Skip to 1:40 to get to the engineering bits :D
wow , there were a lot of things to loot in that laser printer
that electromagnetic brake is actually electromagnetic clutch it is use for picking up the paper from the tray
Alison's laugh is cute!
looks like Captain Planet might need to work on strengthening his Core ....
(any health equipment in the works??)
like a kid in a candy store!! i think we all feel this way.
An automatic dog door opener is called a dog. If you want to keep others out, what you need is a lock with a dog recognizer.
from 14:26 to 14:34 we have creepy ben
I do plastic grinding at work man. It will work..