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Old 01-09-2010, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by kinetic View Post
Great initiative Alex,


A good source of:

Motors, gears, pulleys, toothed belts, machined shafts, clutches,
photo interupter limits switches/PE devices, circlips, chains,bearings,
brass and nylon bushes, one way clutches, solenoids,grub screws,
sprockets...power supplies, Lenses(positive and negative), first surface mirrors,
prisms..................
the list is endless.....


All from old small, medium and large photocopiers and printers,
3 inch and 5 inch disk drives, Hard drives..even the old MFM types...
Check out a few pics in this thread:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...&postcount=149

Steve
Add to this list from Photocopiers, thick walled aluminium fuser rollers, for focusser tubes, building Crayfords etc. Old IT tape drives are full of miniature bearings, isolation mounts. Try old projectors for lens assemblies, partial transmission windows and optical path elements. ( The projectors get thrown away after the user finds out how much a replacement bulb costs!!)
Copier paper trays often have thin sheet aluminium bases.

Love this thread !!
If you checked one of the pics of my 10" build you'd see the pile of engineering bits under the bench in my garage and there is an electrical heap at the other end.
Throw nothing away !!
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