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Step 4Modding the carrage into something usefull!
Ok now that we have an empty scanner bed, its time to make something usefull out of it!
As you can see here, I removed the stepper motor, but I left the gear box intact, the belt has to have something to ride on, so as you can see here, I have a empty scanner bed, and I have everything back together, so the scanner carrage moves along the bed like it was intended to do.
Time to start adding the parts to the scanner carrage.
As you can see here, you will need to cut some small wooden blocks to fill in the empty space in the bottom of the carrage, glue these down with your glue gun.
Next, cut a piece of plywood large enough to fill in all of the empty space left over from the top of your wooden spacers, I was able to do this on mine, very easily, you may not need to do these steps, it just depends on the design of your scanner, as you can see, I had to add some spacers to mine, befor adding the top layer.
When you are done, it should look something like my last picture.
As you can see here, I removed the stepper motor, but I left the gear box intact, the belt has to have something to ride on, so as you can see here, I have a empty scanner bed, and I have everything back together, so the scanner carrage moves along the bed like it was intended to do.
Time to start adding the parts to the scanner carrage.
As you can see here, you will need to cut some small wooden blocks to fill in the empty space in the bottom of the carrage, glue these down with your glue gun.
Next, cut a piece of plywood large enough to fill in all of the empty space left over from the top of your wooden spacers, I was able to do this on mine, very easily, you may not need to do these steps, it just depends on the design of your scanner, as you can see, I had to add some spacers to mine, befor adding the top layer.
When you are done, it should look something like my last picture.
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