I pretty sure you can find cheap bulks of defective ones (unable to read/write, but with working stepping motors) on eBay.
I found some like Not to enticing, but not that bad if you win out for 1 shekel.
Nice!
Yeah, I will keep an eye out and see what I can get for cheap. Got like 3,000+ in my payshekel account so If I can pick some up for cheap that would be cool. Also got some old plotters and line feed printers that do not work, that is a whole different animal however. Got to trace out the stepper lines and make a custom interface.
I will have to check that out. Never thought about that. Don't need a working head just the steppers.
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