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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] FREE HP Plotter for Parts

Posted by James Stevens
on 2002-04-19 11:45:18 UTC
The Plotter has already been accounted for. Thanks for everyone's interest.

James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hylands" <dhylands@...>
To: "'James Stevens'" <stevens@...>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] FREE HP Plotter for Parts


> If nobody has taken you up on it yet, I'd be interested.
>
> Do you know how much it weighs. Even though I'm in Canada, I'd probably
have
> it shipped to my sister's place near Seattle.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Stevens [mailto:stevens@...]
> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:31 AM
> > To: caD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] FREE HP Plotter for Parts
> >
> >
> > I was waiting until I had an appropriate shipping container
> > before I made this offer. Is anyone willing to trade an HP
> > Plotter for good karma?
> >
> > It's an industrial kind of XY data plotter that I bought from
> > 3M when I worked there. I don't know if it ever worked - I
> > was planning on cannibalizing it for parts and began to take
> > it apart when I took the plunge for a complete CNC kit. The
> > size is approximately 24" x 18" with a metal case. A nice
> > resistive grid on top of a thick metal plate with some good
> > motors and switches. Enough selling, this thing is free.....
> >
> > I ask that you pay for shipping and that you will use this
> > for parts (no implication on my part that this thing has all
> > the cables and parts and will work as a plotter). If you can
> > get it to work, great.
> >
> > This could probably be hacked for a CNC PCB machine.
> >
> > Anyone interested can contact me offlist at jstevens@... .
> >
> > Someday I hope to be able to contribute more to this group
> > than FREE this or that, but I hope my offerings to the CNC
> > gods will be acceptable for now.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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James Stevens 2002-04-19 08:30:45 UTC FREE HP Plotter for Parts James Stevens 2002-04-19 11:45:18 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] FREE HP Plotter for Parts