Copy machines and office equipment

Hello all, new to this forum as of last night. I have a good friend that owns a office equipment business. Thinking of getting one if his big copy machines out of his bone yard. Any thoughts?

tear it down and learn whats inside come back here learn whats its worth. decide if its worth your time for the money and what you can do with the extra knowledge and welcome

sounds like good advise. Will give it a go.
Thanks

got nothing to lose. Will see how it goes.

Best of luck!

I've done a couple of these before. They're not usually too hard, but loading them in the truck is another matter!

Look for any reusable parts (Trays, Fusers,...) Since these are from an office equipment shop, the goodies will likely be gone, but you never know!

I got a bunch of photocopiers a while back. Wasn't scrapping at the time, but got them to take apart with my boys.

Gazillion screws. The kids lost interest fairly quickly because it took too long to get anything apart with all the fasteners. Not much in the line of circuit boards but lots of mechanical stuff. There were a few small motors and solenoids that had copper in them, a lot of small sintered bronze bushings for the shafts that held the paper rollers and such. A few sintered steel gears, and some tiny metric roller chains.

I kept most of the mechanical stuff like gears, shafts, bearings and fasteners and tossed the rest away. Some of the shafts weren't even any good to me in the machine shop as they were hardened like glass and you couldn't cut them or drill them.

I had bought them at an auction of a defunct photocopy repair place and got my money back when the auctioneer phoned and said I had one copier that wasn't theirs to sell....I made them pay me more than what I paid for the whole auction lot, which wasn't a big dollar, but it sure p*ssed the auctioneer off!!

Jon.