I bought a new printer and thought there’s has to be something in that old printer that I could use.
After all, there is lots of moving parts. And besides, I like taking apart things that I don’t have to put back together. I’ll clean this pile of junk and paint it rust colored. It could be piled next to a shop or in a Gondola.
That’s a great looking pile of junk J.B. I just tossed a printer out onto the wood pile behind the shop, I’ll have to retrieve it and tear it apart. Sounds like fun too.
You could use some of those gears to start a Cog Railway.
argh, just recently burned one in the pile…
Cale, your status as pack rat has been revoked. 
Heck, I got 2 or three of them things stashed around somewheres…
does it count that it had been on the bench for over 18mo?
I have one down stairs. I guess I know what is happening to it.
My problem is I need a bigger junk box.
Thanks for reminding me, Devon. I had another old one in the basement. I’ll get to bustin’ that one up tomorrow. All those gears in the pic came from one printer.
For the last half-dozen yrs been doing that to any electronics that die … strip for junk detail on the railway or if a backlog, they are redirected in entirety (sp?) to our regional electronics recycling depots (staples canada outlets in this province are accepting ‘depots’).
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Cale, since when does time matter? I mean for stashed items. I still have a junk box in my barn that I brought with me from the old house. We moved in October of 1995, so that’s…um…ah…, well, its been a while.
John, I don’t doubt it. I repair stuff like that. And once I fix the problem, I have to get all them fiddly bits back in where they belong so the thing actually works again. It can be a bit mind numbing.
You’re not turning them into 3d printers?
Cale Nelson said:
argh, just recently burned one in the pile…
How’d you get away with that?
gentlemen, don’t forget your old video players!
they have fair amount of usable junk inside too.
and i personally love tearing up old CD-drives. very small motors inside for some animated scenes.
for advanced “junkies” there is the car gravejard.
window motors and mirror motors (the best slow motion motors, i know of)
On the other hand you could bag the gears up and Ebay them…some idiot will buy them!
Ross Mansell said:
On the other hand you could bag the gears up and Ebay them…some idiot will buy them!
Then paint them to look greasy and rusty and put them in a gondola for junk!