<div>If it's to harvest stepper motors, make sure the printers in question have steppers.</div><div><br></div><div>A few low end HP ones use a cheap dc motor and an optical encoder strip which is interpreter by a photodiode mounted on the print head carriage - really clever and cheap design but basically useless outside the printer!</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 at 10:35, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">I've got at least 2 you can have, collect in Stockbridge. andyhasit followed by <a href="http://gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I've got a printer, if you can collect.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>Email james at <a href="http://opentechcalendar.co.uk" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">opentechcalendar.co.uk</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_7197962933049475690h5 gmail_msg">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_7197962933049475690h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I find my self in need of a couple of old printers and CD/DVD drives.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>If<br><br> anyone has any gathering dust that they'd like to offload please let me<br><br> know. I'll be stripping them down for parts so dead kit would be fine.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>Thanks<div class="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-yj6qo m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-ajU gmail_msg"><div id="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-:246" class="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-ajR gmail_msg"><img class="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-ajT gmail_msg" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-:246" class="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151m_5062995251233228316gmail-ajR gmail_msg">Henry<br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div><br><br><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><span class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br>EdLUG mailing list<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br><a href="mailto:EdLUG@lists.edlug.org.uk" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">EdLUG@lists.edlug.org.uk</a><br class="gmail_msg"><br><br><a href="https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug</a><br class="gmail_msg"><br><br><br class="gmail_msg"></span></blockquote></div><span class="m_7197962933049475690HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">-- <br class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_7197962933049475690m_-1714078897482555151gmail_signature gmail_msg" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">Tech in Scotland <a href="https://find.techin.scot/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">techin.scot</a><br class="gmail_msg">Tech events around the UK <a href="https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">opentechcalendar.co.uk</a><br class="gmail_msg">and calendars for all <a href="https://ican.hasacalendar.co.uk/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">ican.hasacalendar.co.uk</a> (open data & open source)</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></font></span></div><br><br><br class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br>EdLUG m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