Homebrew PCBs

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.

Harvey


On 12/25/2016 8:35 PM, me@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
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> 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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