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radiotech
Thu Feb 11 2010, 08:08PM
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Once I had a radio, circa 1920's, with a top lid that opened to see the tubes. I noticed a lot of white spots in the wood, took it home
where it was warm. A few days later, the spots began to hatch and the wood was alive with tiny bugs.

Fine radio. getting "peanut" tubes wan't easy.
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Conundrum
Thu Feb 11 2010, 11:37PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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Coherent wrote ...


-Printers....Uh don't even mess with these. Great way to ruin your cloths with ink/toner and they don't contain any parts that are even remotely useful.


Laser printers often have useful parts such as stepper motors and high voltage parts..

as for inkjets, the useful parts include:- ribbon cables, expensive metal bearings and rods (handy for small repraps), and the all important optical interrupt sensors and ribbon (these can sense a movement of less than 0.2mm repeatably)

-A
"Bother" said Pooh, as he received his Mcafee renewal popup...

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klugesmith
Fri Feb 12 2010, 04:13AM
klugesmith Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
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Conundrum wrote ...
as for inkjets, the useful parts include:- ribbon cables, expensive metal bearings and rods (handy for small repraps), and the all important optical interrupt sensors and ribbon (these can sense a movement of less than 0.2mm repeatably)
The optical position sensor ribbons can serve as coarse gratings, used with a laser pointer to demonstrate diffraction of light. The pitch of lines on the ribbon is usually a round number like 150 per inch; from that and the diffraction angle you can find the wavelength of your laser, or vice-versa.
-Rich
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radiotech
Fri Feb 12 2010, 04:48AM
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You might take the ribbon out and put in on a bow. and draw it through the sensor and feed the output to an audio amp and make a "light violin"
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