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Ian S C	25/11/2011 12:06:07
7468 forum posts 230 photos	The best one I'v had was an old Xerox copier. Full of gears, shafts, bearings, motors etc. The power supply, after modification now is a low voltage supply around the workshop, it powers the fed on the mill, an 18 V hand drill, the electolitic rust bath, and anything else that will take the 18 V. A small 12 V compressor seems quite happy running on it too. The whole thing was found at the local dump (when there was one), I had to disasseble it there and bring it home on my bike and trailer, about 5 or 6 K. Ian S C
Billy Mills	25/11/2011 18:24:47
377 forum posts	Yes the old ones were great, EHT supplies and all. Xerox invented the electostatic process that everyone else uses. But you can also get their update on the Tectronix "Phaser" solid ink printer which uses coloured wax fired through a full page width piezo print head. Very fast and excellent colour but-tale of woe- very few moving parts so not a great scrapper. My fave scrapper at the moment is Hard Disk Drives, I have a few score to melt down for the alloy. Some time in the future I would like to have a go at the Mike Cox DIY foundry concept. Do use a few ATX PSU's doing various odd things. They must be the cheapest way of getting 400W of low voltage that is roughly stabilised. You can always stack them too for 24V or 48V. There is also the LV lighting "transformer" which gives out 60W of high frequency AC and is "dimmable" with a light dimmer which sells for a couple of quid at the moment. Billy.

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