THIS is a notice for those interested in having some items shipped to you, please do the following:
VIA Private Message, indicate what item you would like, what carrier you would like to ship with, and any special instructions. You must chose the carrier and speed at which you want the item delivered. Be aware it can take up to a week for me to ship the item out to you. I will let you know the weight prior to shipping.
For those wondering from my post in the 'laser show' sub-forum, I decided that I would not be doing a laser show for my weekend DJ'ing. I don't feel comfortable yet with lasers and I'd want to be comfortable with them before I started using them where they could potentially harm bystanders.
Anyway...My main job is as a copier/fax machine technician. Why does this matter? Well it doesn't, but the 'ah' factor is that the company I work for throws out 3-5 office-class copiers (like the Canon ImageRunner 3200 or the Savin 6010) a week. Usually when a copier is near the end of it's life (1 million copies or so) we just toss them out.
Now, the reason I bring this up is when we 'scrap' these copiers, the company parts out the drums, fusers, corona assemblies, and duplex units. They normally do NOT take out the laser assembly or any mirrors and/or optics.
Before I waste my time tearing down these copiers before they are tossed, would there be any reason or demand to try and save the lasers and/or optics (mirrors and such) before the copiers hit the very large garbage bin in the back of the store? The reason I ask is that the lasers are normally 780nm (infrared) and around 5 mW. Normally the canon's come with a polygon mirror (normally 4-6 faceted, 20mm or so). Older Canon NP and IR models have a very nice optical mirror array, however with the advancements in CCD technology the current models normally do not have mirrors and the CCD scanner scans the originals directly from the copier's glass instead of using mirrors to redirect the image onto a fixed CCD (or directly onto the drum itself).
So, the long and short of it is, I work with a company that throws away office-class copy machines nearly daily. They don't normally take the lasers assy's out or the optics out of the copiers before they are thrown away. Would these optics/lasers be worth saving?
Would anyone care for some of these lasers/optics? (You cover shipping costs and you can have them for free as far as I'm concerned)
VIA Private Message, indicate what item you would like, what carrier you would like to ship with, and any special instructions. You must chose the carrier and speed at which you want the item delivered. Be aware it can take up to a week for me to ship the item out to you. I will let you know the weight prior to shipping.
For those wondering from my post in the 'laser show' sub-forum, I decided that I would not be doing a laser show for my weekend DJ'ing. I don't feel comfortable yet with lasers and I'd want to be comfortable with them before I started using them where they could potentially harm bystanders.
Anyway...My main job is as a copier/fax machine technician. Why does this matter? Well it doesn't, but the 'ah' factor is that the company I work for throws out 3-5 office-class copiers (like the Canon ImageRunner 3200 or the Savin 6010) a week. Usually when a copier is near the end of it's life (1 million copies or so) we just toss them out.
Now, the reason I bring this up is when we 'scrap' these copiers, the company parts out the drums, fusers, corona assemblies, and duplex units. They normally do NOT take out the laser assembly or any mirrors and/or optics.
Before I waste my time tearing down these copiers before they are tossed, would there be any reason or demand to try and save the lasers and/or optics (mirrors and such) before the copiers hit the very large garbage bin in the back of the store? The reason I ask is that the lasers are normally 780nm (infrared) and around 5 mW. Normally the canon's come with a polygon mirror (normally 4-6 faceted, 20mm or so). Older Canon NP and IR models have a very nice optical mirror array, however with the advancements in CCD technology the current models normally do not have mirrors and the CCD scanner scans the originals directly from the copier's glass instead of using mirrors to redirect the image onto a fixed CCD (or directly onto the drum itself).
So, the long and short of it is, I work with a company that throws away office-class copy machines nearly daily. They don't normally take the lasers assy's out or the optics out of the copiers before they are thrown away. Would these optics/lasers be worth saving?
Would anyone care for some of these lasers/optics? (You cover shipping costs and you can have them for free as far as I'm concerned)
