Big A** copy machines

CH,

I have 3 to pick up, there older but weight a Sh** load. I would be interested in what you get out of it. I'm sure they should have good boards and alot of little motors. But there a pain to move. I'm going to pick up atleast one of them next week.

I guess it really depends on how much time you want to spend on it and how much of it that you can actually turn a profit on.

I am a very small time operation. And I do not have much in the way of constant flow of merchandise coming in, nor very much in the way of stuff stored up. In my case. I would break it all the way down to the screws in my spare time. However, I can recycle every single piece off of any printer for a profit. At this time the only things that I can't profit from are CRT Glass ( including the small tubes from projection screen tv's) and Alkaline Batteries. So just about everything gets torn down to its very basic components.

Also, after reading your post again, I would definitely try to re-sell the printer that works and during a set amount of time (approximately 3 months) to sell the working printer, I would keep the non working one, so if the good printer didnt sell, I could process and scrap them both at the same time.

A friend told me, that his brother (tru story) is a photocopy repair tech.

He said that his brother told him that as copy machines are business items & must work 100%, 100% of the time.
To do that they are programmed to shut down for service every so many copys & they are overbuilt & under the rated output.

ie, the machine shuts down at something like 85% of the possible output of 100% quality copys for servicing.

With the right codes, the machine will start up & run the last 15% of the copys. Thats at 100% quality. After that the machine will still go on to do as much as another 30% more than what it was made to do in the first place.

Add in the free parts, such as toner, belts & drums etc & the machine can do as much as 200% more over time with the odd unofficial servicing, for very little expense.

It might pay to ask around to find a copy service tech with some spare time up his sleeve.
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In my experience metal engineering workshops like old photocopiers, they can copy off drawings, shoot them out to the workshop & they don't have to worry about damaging the drawings with dirt, sparks & fire.