RE: Printed Circuit Board Supplies

At 11:55 PM 2/9/00 -0700, you wrote:

>From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
>
>Hans,
>
>I have been thinking about how to build a laminator on the cheap and the
>line I am pursuing is to get the fuser unit from a laser printer or copier
>and use that. All the fuser units I am familiar with have a halogen bulb
>inside the heated roller to heat it up and then have thermistors external to
>the roller to control the temperature.

Great Idea. Let me add two suggestions:

As I said in my posts on PC boards, slip a tightly stresached length of
vinyl tubing around the rollers.

Shield the light from the halogen bulb so it doesn't fall on the boards,
because it may contain more uv than you want.

Ted