Homebrew PCBs

Hi!

Great to hear you have good results too.
I also abandoned the plotter method completely.

The fuser:
I have a fuser of a photocopier lying around for some time now.
It has a 800watt heating quartz lamp. The aluminium roller which gets hot 
is rather thickwalled, about 5mm.
(The roller in my laser printer is 1,5 to 2mm so i was surprised.)


The temperature control circuit of the copier i can't use. So i would have 
to build my own.
Also the transport motor is in the copier. It is only one motor and a bunch 
of pulleys and belts
for the whole printing unit. So you see rather complicated to use that (it 
is a brushless motor and i don't
know if i can use the controller)

For testing i planned to hook the heater up at a variac and adjust the 
temperature myself until it is ok.
The unit has a hand wheel to drive the rollers (paper jam) so that could be 
used for testing too.


The reason why i haven't used it yet:
My ironing works nicely.

If anyone plans to buy a laminator and wants to know if the fuser works ask 
and i will test
it, but for my useage the test is suspended until i get sick of ironing.


Stefan


On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:24:16 -0500, Deepinder Singh <deepinder_s@...> 
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to drop a note of thanks for guiding me onto the toner
> transfer method.
>
> -Deepinder
>