Scanner parts What could this be used for?

[BillTodd]

I had to save this old drum scanner from the scrap.  It's got too many nice useable bits to waste so...

What can I , or you - if you want it,  do with it?


To explain. The film drum was placed between centres of the carriage, light sources form inside or outside illuminated a pixel. As the drum was rotated by the motor and encoder on the left the light was analysed by a the three colour sensors in the camera box (scanner 3)  . The whole carriage is shifted right,  on 19mm supported linear rails by another stepping motor with encoder

The camera box has a focus motor and orifice disc on another motor.

My first thought was coil winder , especially large Tesla type coils .

Thoughts  ?

[vtsteam]

I dunno, I guess because I've been saving so many things like that over the last 25 years or so, that I've come to realize I will never have time to make even a tenth of it into something useful, and so now am in the process of getting rid of stuff. Also, I've reached the point in making things that I have all of the tools needed to make anything I could imagine, right up from melting raw metal, to casting, through any kind of welding brazing soldering, blacksmithing, fabricating, operation to get to whatever it is going to be.

So the question is, what am I going to make with all this stuff? Well, probably continue on down the line of hot air engineering I've started already -- winter seems to be the time I return to metalwork, and that time is approaching again now. But I have no imagination left for tools -- which Bill, your scanner guts look like prime materials for. But in my present dull state, I can only see a lathe in it, which doesn't seem like a score of 10% on the imagination scale.

Now if I were starting out again with no tools, I'd be very excited about that possibility. I still have a little bit of wistful envy re. a gear hobbing machine, having long ago wanted to build a Jacobs after reading an old set of ME articles on it. But little about your scanner cries out "gear hobber", but maybe I'm too mentally lazy to see it now.

Things I'd really like to do, but may never achieve at the rate I'm going:
A steam powered wood splitter (nope, your scanner highly unlikely material for that)
A wood powered steam or hot air engined outboard motor
A "kitchen sink" Henry Ford engine, belted to a generator, running on wood gas
A highly roadable portable tiny houseboat
A small sailing Cape Cod style catboat

Before any of that--- get a working shop in order. And heat for it....

[awemawson]

I too have got to the ?do I really need it?? Phase of life.

Today?s ?eviction? was a PCB chemical processing lab. A sink and six dip tanks (developer, rinse, etch, rinse, tinplate, rinse ) all neatly mounted in a free standing unit. Very handy when making a series of pcbs or brass etchings either of art work or profiles of model trains.

Tomorrow it?s space will be taken up with a new table which will hold my new (and yet to be unpacked) Bambu Labs P1s combo unit - assuming that the table arrives.

[tom osselton]

I just received a Anycubic Cobra S1 combo and bought filliment for it pay attention to the size of the rolls I have one that is about 1/2 inch bigger enough that the cover doesn?t close.