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Subject: Re: Metal laminator gears..... anybody making epoxy gears?

From: Rob <roomberg@...>
Date: 2016-12-26

Anybody making epoxy composite gears?
Sure would like to see an example of that some day.



On 12/26/2016 03:34 AM, craigl2@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
 

Forget about the melting point. You need to be looking at the heat deflection temperature. Most of the plastics usable in this temperature range are very expensive, Teflon (PTFE) is probably the cheapest. A high temperature epoxy (such as EpoxAcast 670 HT from Smooth-On) with the addition of glass fibers or powdered metal fillers to further increase the heat resistance might also work.


Craig



---In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, <roomberg@...> wrote :

There are two issues here.
First is the folks who want to change the speed of the rollers to slow it down to do
just one pass.
The laminators that have two sizes of gears can have them swapped to have the bigger where the smaller
was and it will slow down.
BUT
if your laminator does not reach 340 degrees then swapping gears does not get you anywhere.

Issue two is US melting nylon plastic gears when we raise the 290 degree standard photo pouch
laminators to 340 degrees... and higher 370 degrees to match toner melt temperatures.

FROM WIKI:
 The 428 °F (220 °C) melting point of nylon 6 is lower than the 509 °F (265 °C) melting point of nylon 66.

SO
here lies our problem.
Cheap gear motors pushing cheap gears are fine in a laminator that is supposed to never reach
300 degrees.
And then
we cook them up with a laminator hack
and
if we go a little too far.... melt our gears:

http://www.learnmorsecode.com/laminator/royalmods9.jpg

and nobody has been able to identify the correct metal gears to replace some of our gears.

So look into making them:

http://www.learnmorsecode.com/laminator/gearteeth.gif