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    Plotter

    Hi all
    Has anyone here ever scrapped a plotter? I may pick one up next week.



    also a dot matrix printer.

    and yes, I did multiple searches here and came up with nothing.

    I'll be posting some photos next week, when I have more time, of the last printer I scrapped, it was an Oce mainframe printer, 1200 lbs of steel, 15 circuit boards, 2 486 amd cpus, and a backplane board that feels like it is made out of steel.

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    I have done a few. For the ones I did, they were pretty much large ink jet printers. Boards were probably a little better grade but a little larger in size.

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    Sell the plotter. Post it on CL for a couple weeks. Ask 50 or a 100 for it. There is a market for those for certain people. They are adapted for other things.

    See, even I can help others make money sometimes. I only know this because I'd kill for a plotter for a project I want to do.

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    I've done one, it was an old HP. The one I had was almost all aluminum, lots of extrusion and sheet, a few nice boards, and a couple small motors. It was much better than I thought it'd be. The best route would be to try and sell it outright, but if that doesn't work out the scrap isn't bad

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    i have sold plotter boards in the $100-$200 range, good luck with it, scrap the rest
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
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    Thanks guys, I think I can get it for $6 plus an hour to go get it.

    If I can test it and it works I'll try to sell it, but sometime I realy just love taking stuf apart.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by sixteenacrewood View Post
    Thanks guys, I think I can get it for $6 plus an hour to go get it.

    If I can test it and it works I'll try to sell it, but sometime I realy just love taking stuf apart.....
    That is my problem also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sixteenacrewood View Post
    Thanks guys, I think I can get it for $6 plus an hour to go get it.

    If I can test it and it works I'll try to sell it, but sometime I realy just love taking stuf apart.....
    Quote Originally Posted by bpatnoe View Post
    That is my problem also.
    all in favor say "I"

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