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| lordvader88:
I'm in a small city and it's pretty hard to get stuff besides CRT TVs and printers. Everything else people just toss it because they don't know people like us would want it. I was finishing scrapping a laser printer, and I had no idea about the toner, and I spilled it all over my legs/feet/carpet. Thank the gods it vacuumed up. However I just realized hours later my nose is clogged with it and I went to out super, LOL |
| helius:
Ow, sorry to hear that. Vacuuming up toner is actually rather dangerous as it is fine enough to pass through many vacuum cleaner bags, and is also conductive, and can cause sparks or destroy electric motors. It's suggested to only use special vacuum cleaners designed for that purpose: http://www.crawfordtool.com/3M_servicevacuum.html It's a good idea to breathe as little toner as possible, since it can be respired deep into the lungs. |
| notlegato:
Whoops. Yeah I took apart a printer the other day- fortunately neat. Got a few DC motors out of the thing and basically just a few big caps and coils. Disappointment, really. Motors were nice, but a basic desktop printer is kind of empty, so lots of trouble for very little. Made a fume extractor out of some old PC fans though ( --- End quote --- ). |
| Fludo:
I took apart a rack mount UPS which had bad batteries. It was destined for the scrap pile so the wires had been cut out. Goodies inside: 1.5kVA transformer PCB mount isolation transformer Hi power MOSFETs Ceramic and electrolytic caps various step down transformers A small current sensor that looks like a space ship 8x 3 pole 240VAC 15A relays pcb mounted |
| joseph nicholas:
I took apart a Tek 453 scope with the crt, boards transformer and other misc parts sitting in the lab. |
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