fax macheines, copiers, and type writers have rods what are they?

They all have these rods in them and they are pretty heavy. Does anyone know what they are made of? They look stainless but I'm still learning my metals so any knowledge would be appreciated.

Yeah my magnet loves it

I haven't found any to be non magnetic stainless yet. Maybe in some really old high end stuff, but I doubt it. Speaking of rods though, old 5.25 floppy drives often have stainless rods that the head slides on. Possibly other old drives too.

The rods that the printer head slides on is steel. after you take the plastic top off of some printers right on top above the printer head is a ss piece that looks like small angle iron. Always check with a magnet.

I find steel and once a couple of as.

Professional office printers/copiers have stainless but they have this rubberized foam molded to them, I use a razor and scrap it off. Probably not worth it, but I break EVERYTHING down.

I stand the rods up on end then hit the rubber rollers down with the claw part of the hammer. The foam ones, I just peel it off. Don't forget to save the main boards and memory. Some of the large multi-function printers have a hard drive. save that too.

broke down a micro-fish machine 14 lb ss rollers on it.always use your magnet