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Are plotters worth fooling with for scrap?

Escrap? There’s a bunch of high peripheral and lower in them.
But there’s gonna be a good amount of midrange metals scrap, copper, brass, nickel, motors, wire.
much of steel too.

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Yes, Escarp and metals. It sounds like not something I shouldn't twist off and spend more than $5 or $10 on.

I probably wouldn’t pay for one right now. But if free no reason not to scrap it.

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Is there some reason you wouldn't pay for one “now”?

Mainly because the parts market is flip flopping.

And I have no real way to gage what you’d actually get out of it scrap alone. ;)

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Oh....that makes sense. I always know if I have a question you will have a honest answer for me.

Thank you

If you look it up I once talked about the great world of plotters.
That day has passed.

To start with this is a blueprint drop printer. Which is considerably below high end press plotters.
If I came across one in thrift or salvage; I’d probably pay $5-$10 myself, just for the education aspect of it. How it works. What’s programmed in this chips. What languages does it support. Can it be hacked or modded?

But value, is a wild guess.

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I do remember your post about plotters, now that you mention it. Wow that was some time back a year or two at least.

Taking your advice on this one I let it go, it sold for $12.

But I did pick up a lot of L3 Mobile Vision in car surveillance systems.

Nice, easy to sell, less easy to dissect.
Good boards though I believe.

I think the confusion and debate is where I turned my approach on plotters.
I don’t recall which site the discussion was At though.
What is technically a plotter and what realistically a plotter are not the same.
The value is in PS (older) and MPL/CUPS (newer) 4, 5, 9, or more colour plotters. Used for making signs, billboards, magazines, book panels, and dvd/bluray inserts.
Some companies use plotters and o print optical discs as well.

These are large machines. They make use of individual processing boards per colour. They contain an AFC, a single function computer. Telco class boards, thin copper pipe, lots of wire, and they’re often aluminium—not steel.
They’re 3 times the size of the one you posted or larger.

The resale market For parts on smaller “plotters” is a bit crazy now with wide format laser becoming inexpensive and PermaTone coming close to release. Companies aren’t looking to buy parts to have.
So prices are dirt cheap to get rid of stuff or gawd awful expensive at actual parts stores.

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