Homebrew PCBs

On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:43:13 -0700, you wrote:

>The Harbor Freight laminator doesn't get hot enough for the Brother 
>toner. In the process of raising the temperature I managed to soften the 
>gears to the point where they no longer turned the rollers. Replacing 
>the plastic gears with metal ones solves that problem, but only if the 
>plastic supports for the shafts are made of a higher temperature plastic.
>
>I am not familiar with the GBC laminator, except through reading about 
>it here in the group, so I don't know about what kind of gears it has. 
>If it works, don't fix it.

Has anyone considered buying a junked laser printer from a thrift
store, and using the fuser assembly?

It would need some mechanical and electrical work, but that's what
you're talking about anyway, just perhaps a bit more....

(the other) Harvey


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>Harvey
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>On 12/25/2016 8:35 PM, me@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
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>> What is the advantage to swapping out gears?   I have been using a GBC 
>> Heatseal H212 for a number of years now with no issues.   The only 
>> modification I made was to remove some guides to allow the PCB to pass 
>> through.
>>
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