It's 8.5" I paid $10 for it because nobody knew what it was. It has
two red rubebr rollers which are heated, the laminated item fits
between them. Those two rollers are not motorized (!). There is knob
on the side which is turned by hand. The PCB fits betwenn the
rollers, gets fed between them approx 1" by turning the know on the
right side and then a larger black rubber roller (non heated) pickes
up the PCB and pulls it between the previously described heated
rollers...
What that means that the PCB is pulled by hand and that means it may
not get evenly heated, however our trick is to feed back again, maybe
from different angles.
The machine robustness is stunning and it runs really hot.
I own a big thank you to this group for mentioning the laminators so
many times.
Mike
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <alienrelics@y...>
wrote:
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...>
wrote:
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> > Then I happened to come accross a GBC laminator, one of those
larger
> > units, probably commercial, from 20 years ago- it uses rolls of
> > plastic for laminating. I tried a quick lamination and it runs
really
> > nicely, requires no modification and the temp can be adjusted by
> > changing the pot setting on the sensots touching the rollers.
>
> How wide? Those things are expensive! You got a great find.
>
> > PS Steve, you're right. I better keep that fabulous Nuarc 26k uv
> > exposure unit.
>
> ;')
>
> Steve