Thermal fax machine- "lamp drive unit"

**eesakiwi** · 02-10-2013, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by scraplington

Oh, and I forgot to say, there was a very long spool of some type of carbon paper with copies of the last several hundred faxes sent. Destroyed it of course, looked like the docs were over 10 years old anyway.

Thats my theory on why some people are buying used printer cartidges, for the info on the chips they often have.

Have another look at that strip with the gold contacts.
If it goes the full width of the paper, I think its a 'light bar' (my name for it), they have a bunch of tiny naked LED's attached to it, each with its own gold wire.
Its normally a ceramic strip too.

Top right corner of this pic of mine>

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Gee, since I have read what silversurfer wrote. I relise its not actually a fax machine!

**silversurfer** · 02-10-2013, 10:00 PM

If what you were scrapping was a "Thermofax 3M" don't break any more if you find them intact. They are still valuable to screen printing artists and tatooists. I found one the other day and sold it on for much more than scrap (and I could have got more!) to an artist only 24 hours later!!