Just harking back to an earlier post in this thread. I have heaps of stepping motors lying around at home ( and more available ). All 'rescued' from copiers and printers being dumped at work. A lot are brand new from unused accessories or modifications. Many also have the driver board attached or built on. I can normally get with plugs and some wiring as well.
If you want to provide pix or info of what is suitable for your project and are happy to cover postage across the ditch I could supply a few DIY tinkerers out there. Happy to maybe swap for other bits I might like, filters, another diag, you name it.
This offer is to anyone following this thread of course. PM me or post here. I can send pix of available bits.
Also got some small DC motors, some with gearboxes and quite low ratios, screw drive miniature motors ( slow, no backwinding).
Optical sensors, some microswitches.
Hmm, I should be building a 3D printer ... I've got shafts and gears and other stuff.
Anyway, anyone interested, give me a yell.