So I impulse acquired a very big, heavy Xerox color copier printer scanner. One of those office supply place sized jobs.
Is there a better or more direct place than berkeleying ebay to sell off the good parts?
Power supply, about a dozen circuit boards, some toner, the scanner portion itself or parts from (way too big to ship)?
It was local, I thought the ad was a scam, but when it wasn't I jumped on it. I just don't have room for it, or even really a need since I got my laser printer.
Maybe a repair tech forum I'm unaware of?
In reply to RevRico :
There are copier forums, but I’ve been out of the biz over 7-years, so I don’t have links or any idea if they’re still active.
If the machine is over about 7 or 8 years old it’ll likely be worth more as scrap. Everything built since about 2000 is basically on a planned obsolescence program by the time they’re 5-years old(with the exception of a handful of room-sized units).
Scrapping was my backup plan, but I know what the life of a tech can be like, getting requests to fix antique junk all the time. There are lots of good looking brackets and some surprisingly heavy metal chunks buried in the plastic and the boards.
This is a 2003 Workcentre 24. Bigass machine. Feels kinda bad tearing it all down to nothing, but at the same time, it's a ton of fun to break things once in a while.
bluej
UberDork
8/24/19 6:08 p.m.
Rent a spot at a fair and charge people $5 for 60 seconds w/ a big rubber mallet or something.
Start very low-scale gold recovery?
mtn
MegaDork
8/26/19 9:10 a.m.
bluej said:
Rent a spot at a fair and charge people $5 for 60 seconds w/ a big rubber mallet or something.
Nah, baseball bat. Extra $2 to play "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"
bluej said:
Rent a spot at a fair and charge people $5 for 60 seconds w/ a big rubber mallet or something.
I'm still trying to figure out how the business that was doing that managed to go under. Their rent was almost nonexistent, they had an endless supply of donated stuff to smash, and they were always busy, but somehow barely lasted a year.
RevRico said:
bluej said:
Rent a spot at a fair and charge people $5 for 60 seconds w/ a big rubber mallet or something.
I'm still trying to figure out how the business that was doing that managed to go under. Their rent was almost nonexistent, they had an endless supply of donated stuff to smash, and they were always busy, but somehow barely lasted a year.
Insurance must cost a lot .......
