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chuckmerja

plastic in printer
November 27, 2011 01:55PM

Registered: 12 years ago
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My science club kids take apart printers - among other things. We use some of the steppers etc and would like very much to recycle the plastic from which the printers are made. I don't seem to find typical "following arrows" with plastic type numbers. Does anyone know what kinds of plastic these printers - HP 6xx, 7xx, 8xx etc, Epson, old OKI dotmatrix etc. Thanks, Chuck

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VDX

Re: plastic in printer
November 27, 2011 03:45PM

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... most of the housing parts should be made from ABS, but it's often blended with toxic additives against fire, so be carefully with remelting and reusing them eye rolling smiley

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Andrew Diehl

Re: plastic in printer
November 28, 2011 01:39AM

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Usually ABS or High Impact Polystyrene for cases/structural. Gears are often acrylic or nylon. There is usually some sort of glass filled plastic on the head.