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Some pics of the inside of a dot matrix printer I picked up, what are the big blue cans?

Originally Posted by fnd5055

http://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/fnd5055/

Some pics of the inside of a dot matrix printer I picked up, what are the big blue cans?

The big blue cans are electrolytic capacitors. They have some very thin aluminum rolled up inside them along with paper soaked in an electrolyte. Not worth much as far as I know.

As dherik says break open some of those ceramic ICs, depending upon their age, they may have a fair amount of gold in them. Especially if they're ceramic.

Originally Posted by dherik

I wouldn't break the IC chips open, they're worth far more complete. And worth even more with a good pull.

You're right, I should have been more specific about which ones are okay to break. To whomever else reads this please don't damage or scrap chips like these two. The bottom one "C4004" sells for more than $1000.00.

Originally Posted by fnord

You're right, I should have been more specific about which ones are okay to break. To whomever else reads this please don't damage or scrap chips like these two. The bottom one "C4004" sells for more than $1000.00.

Yeah I seen these before. There like rare Intel Processors

What about the smaller ones (dime size) and that size in pic, but are dark brown ceramic, on mother boards/ pci boards?? They seem to be in a plastic
holder but easily come out.....their value??

Originally Posted by metal gypsy

What about the smaller ones (dime size) and that size in pic, but are dark brown ceramic, on mother boards/ pci boards?? They seem to be in a plastic
holder but easily come out.....their value??

metal gypsy, the ones with the stripes red yellow brown gold? Those are carbon resistors, they are almost as valuable as charcoal briquettes.

Notice the legs on the chips though? and the metal bits in the sockets that the chips are plugged into? Gold plated, the older the board, the thicker the gold plating is.

Originally Posted by iScrap

Thanks all. Is it possible then, that the old dot matrix in my basement which I wanted to sell for quite some time is worth more if I scrapped it and pulled the chips?

Depends, but quite possibly. If you have the patience, older printers have pretty robust gears and motors which are sought after by robot builder hobbyists.

http://www.willsmith.org/collectible_chips/

good pics of rare chips

omg...which is worse..I sold my 1966 Mustang for pennies in the early eighties.....or... I don't even remember what happened to my dot matrix printer along about the same time !!! Who knew ?!!

What about the smaller ones (dime size) and that size in pic, but are dark brown ceramic, on mother boards/ pci boards?? They seem to be in a plastic
holder but easily come out.....their value??

I looked in the first set of pic's and I think he's talking about the IC chips (which are dk brown or black) all over the board in the first pic. I think those are on plug-in sockets.

http://s1236.photobucket.com/albums/...nter%20boards/

Some of the boards i pulled out of that old dot matrix printer, i have not seen ones like this before. Does anyone know what the ibm chip is? Srry about the blurry pic.

In the top pic. to the left of the blue can caps. is a big silver can cap. and right below it is a large transformer full of copper.