On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:43:13 -0700, you wrote:
>The Harbor Freight laminator doesn't get hot enough for the Brother
>toner. In the process of raising the temperature I managed to soften the
>gears to the point where they no longer turned the rollers. Replacing
>the plastic gears with metal ones solves that problem, but only if the
>plastic supports for the shafts are made of a higher temperature plastic.
>
>I am not familiar with the GBC laminator, except through reading about
>it here in the group, so I don't know about what kind of gears it has.
>If it works, don't fix it.
Has anyone considered buying a junked laser printer from a thrift
store, and using the fuser assembly?
It would need some mechanical and electrical work, but that's what
you're talking about anyway, just perhaps a bit more....
(the other) Harvey
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>Harvey
>
>
>On 12/25/2016 8:35 PM, me@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
>>
>> What is the advantage to swapping out gears? I have been using a GBC
>> Heatseal H212 for a number of years now with no issues. The only
>> modification I made was to remove some guides to allow the PCB to pass
>> through.
>>
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