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mongke
 
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Default printer axles for metalworking projects?

Hi all

Just discovered a small shop where they take apart printers, photocopiers
and stuff like that and sell the parts, so have an assortment of nice
looking axles in sizes from 3/16" to more than 1/2". Would these be
adecuate for machine construction, Gingery type?

Comments thanked in advance

regards,


Mongke
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Jim Stewart
 
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mongke wrote:

Hi all

Just discovered a small shop where they take apart printers, photocopiers
and stuff like that and sell the parts, so have an assortment of nice
looking axles in sizes from 3/16" to more than 1/2". Would these be
adecuate for machine construction, Gingery type?


A couple of shafts I took from HP printers
cut nicely with a hacksaw and HSS tools
on my lathe.




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Dave Keith
 
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Default printer axles for metalworking projects?

All of the printers I have scavenged have been metric, if that matters. I
have a bunch of nice 12mm shafts, and even though I live in Canada where
supposedly we are 'metrified', it's hard to find metric bushings etc... But
for sure these would make reasonable linear motion slides for a smaller
machine. I have a few in a grinding jig (sliding table thing) project.

Dave

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Hi all

Just discovered a small shop where they take apart printers, photocopiers
and stuff like that and sell the parts, so have an assortment of nice
looking axles in sizes from 3/16" to more than 1/2". Would these be
adecuate for machine construction, Gingery type?

Comments thanked in advance

regards,


Mongke



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Richard J Kinch
 
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mongke writes:

Would these be
adecuate for machine construction, Gingery type?


All kinds of goodies: shafts, bearings, gears, clips, belts, pulleys.

Problem is finding what you need without disassembling a truckload of this
stuff or becoming a neurotic junk-collector.
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Winston
 
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Richard J Kinch wrote:

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Problem is finding what you need without disassembling a truckload of this
stuff or becoming a neurotic junk-collector.


Oops.

--Winston

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