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I've been putting off this project for some time... but I finally acquired some wood and bought myself a threaded rod and I could probably put together a manual barn door tracker... but I seem to recall reading in a thread either for a motorised Barn Door tracker or possibly even a DIY motorised Equatorial mount for a Dobsonian (the other project I'm putting off), that it may be possible to use the motor from a scanner. I happen to have an old (well only a year or two old actually) HP multifunction printer/scanner and thought why not try and use that... the problem is I'm not sure how to use that.
Has anyone had any experience extracting said motor from scanner and or then re-purposing it in a barn door tracker or similar?