Homebrew PCBs

Would your fuser example be applicable to hacking the fuser out of a
laser printer with a bad power supply? I have an old Mac laser
printer. They were made by HP at the time.

Mike





--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:59:59 +0100, soffee83 <soffee83@...> wrote:
> 
> > Ideally, I want the laminator, but I still can't get over that ".03x"
> >
> > idea. I've already got too much thicker stuff, and if it was a good
> >
> > enough system, it would be nice to even have the option of running
> >
> > "non-PCB" materials too, since it would be feeding them "through" the
> >
> > heated rollers (for long stuff). It also seems like, with a unit made
> >
> > to run various paper and thin plastic sheets,etc., you'd either be
> >
> > slightly changing the pressure as the thickness varied, or risking too
> >
> > much stress on the mechanics (or both). However, with the easy setup
> >
> > and consistency, and the firsthand feedback from here, it is the
> >
> > obvious choice.
> 
> That's why i use a fuser, a thickness restriction doesn't sound good
to me  
> either, and i'm cheap.
> 
> 
> > I still wish someone would rig something together just for the PCB's,
> >
> > either using the guts of a readily available cheap laminator, or some
> >
> > common commercial heating and rolling parts. When you think about how
> >
> > worthless a broken copier or printer is to "regular" people, we
> >
> > probably wouldn't have much trouble obtaining one. I could probably
> >
> > rig the roller/pressure/feed part somehow, but unfortunately, with
> >
> > what I've heard on DIY mods, the electrical half of it, and the
> >
> > understanding of the technical theory behind laser printers,etc., I
> >
> > myself wouldn't be capable of devising anything without some more
> >
> > specific instructions.
> 
> There isn't much to understand really. You just take out the fuser
unit,  
> look that it has enough travel for thick boards  , rig up a
temperature  
> controller and a slow motor, done.
> 
> >
> >
> > If anybody knows of some good online info on gutting printers,
> >
> > laminators,etc. for this stuff, please let me know.
> >
> 
> I wrote a page on using a fuser for PCBs years ago:
> <http://www.trethan.at.tf/pub/fuser/fuser_as_laminator.html>
> 
> It's not much, and it's very old and probably obsolete in points,
but it's  
> something.
> There's also pictures of the one i use:
> 
> <http://www.trethan.at.tf//pub/img1/>
> 
> those starting with fuser, ignore the others almost all obsolete.
> It's out of a copier and thus very wide, which i find practical.
> 
> Others have done the same, even replicated my simple temperature  
> controller and found it working.
> 
> ST
>