Where can the stepper motors be obtained at a reasonable price?
If you look hard enough, you can get lucky. If you're in a hurry,
you can spend $$$.
I got four or five huge steppers for $5 ea from a shop that was
clearing out a lot of "junk".
I bought a pallet(!) of printers from a school auction for $25.
I salvaged a whole box of useful parts out of that (including
gears, belts, guide rods, driver parts and power supplies on
top of the steppers themselves). I still have a dozen printers
sitting on the queue for dismantling, just no time for it.
Actually, I think the biggest question is how to find the time to play more
with this stuff.
Yeah, that's the biggest problem I have.
I have too many projects ahead of it, but I want to build a PCB
mill to make printed circuit boards without using etchant. This
should be a really neat project, but I don't see even getting to
a starting point for at least 6 or 7 months..
Then there's the DRO for the lathe based on an 8051 microcontroller
driving a small LCD screen. PCs are ok, available and cheap, but
they take up a little too much room in my shop for my tastes.
And then there's the SFM readout for my vertical bandsaw based on a
PIC microcontroller.
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Paul Amaranth | Rochester MI, USA
Aurora Group, Inc. | Software Development
paul@... | Unix / C / Tcl-Tk
