I've actually thought about this before. My concern would be that of
the few old laser printers/copiers that I've taken apart; the fuser
units used pretty pliable rollers (some kind of teflon coated
neoprene). To get a good image takes a bit of pressure as well --the
laminator I use has pretty rigid rubber rollers. I'd say give it a
go and see what happens. I know of one guy that did this and it
seemed to work for him --it happened to have hard rubber rollers
though. He used light dimmers and ceiling fan controllers for heat
and feed speed control. BTW, I do 6-12 passes through the laminator
typically --no speed control on it -yet.
:')
-Dal
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Trethan
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
> I can easily take the fuser unit out of one of the dead copiers.
> Maybe i can use it as a laminator.
> With some care i can reuse the temperature controller too (with
less care i
> will have to build one myself).
>
> What do you think, with a copier fuser, wouldn't i have to pass it
through
> several times? or very slowly?
> I mean it will take quite a while to heat a copper coated pcb.