Homebrew PCBs

Hi,
Looking around for cheap laminator, can anybody tell me if this is a 
common modell with another brandname (Novitec)??
http://www.jula.se/Butik/assets/product_images/mellan/929006_b.jpg
This one is 500W and cost is only about $50

Any chance this is a H200? as I cannot find this type in Sweden.

Thanks
Bengt



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
> KD5NWA wrote:
> 
> > There are lots of laminators out there that are worthless. The 
H200 works 
> > so good because it heats the roller, many cheap ones have a 
heater and then 
> > it's pressed by cold rollers.
> > 
> > I bought mine two years ago for $99 but about a week ago I 
searched again 
> > to check the price and see if it's still available and I found 
it on the 
> > Internet for $97 so look around you should be able to buy it for 
less that 
> > $100.
> > 
> > At 07:57 PM 6/3/2005, you wrote:
> > 
> 
> 
>    This was GBC as well and heats the rollers, just low end GBC.
> 
>    Time to heat up is an ok rough indicator for what it can do, 
heating up 
> rollers in 4 minutes is not bad on the Xerox, I doubt the good GBC 
does 
> significantly better.  Takes much more heating element to warm it 
up fast than 
> you need running for normal laminating usually so it's not cost 
effective.  And 
> then copper board sucks far more heat than most materials being 
laminated.
> 
>    Fuser is ready in 18 seconds.  While it deals with a similar 
small thermal 
> mass for normal printing, it has a very high heating ability so 
you don't have 
> to wait even a minute to print.  It'll easily cook the board if 
you leave it 
> full on.  Probably destroy itself eventually too.
> 
>    Without rebuilding your laminator's electronics you still can't 
have full 
> control.  Even slowing it down etc only lets you control the 
temperature profile 
> a little.  If I want complete control to really test out the 
transfer 
> temperature envelope I may as well skip buying and rebuilding the 
electronics of 
> a laminator and just do the electronics and use a fuser, no more 
work and I have 
> the fusers laying around.
> 
>    Wouldn't suggest it for everyone but it makes sense for what I 
want to do. 
> Or at least as much sense as it can, considering it won't make 
much sense for 
> other reasons.  Time involved vs the fact that I'll have money 
coming in soon 
> from an unrelated project means that soon I should probably never 
even make a 
> board by these methods again, just send and way a few days and 
overlap working 
> on something else..  But I'll screw with it anyway, the fuser from 
the 6L is 
> cool and I want to make it burn the heck out of a board now that I 
see it. 
> Should do other stuff, but I know I'll do this one since it looks 
fun.
> 
> Alan