Karl: Here is another joke regarding shredders: It is the custom to place the refuse, the shreds into a transparent plastic bag -- for the whole world to see that one is shredding confidential material and often times it is packed so cleanly without one's thinking of putting some undesirable substance in it as dung, excrement, stale-sauce, or grime -- but no: they leave this outside of their house/business in order to say, "Come on in, there is more confidential stuff where this came from" Soon, they will be looking inside your house! This is amazing.
Great idea, my daughter had a comercial one that broke a gear. I hand cut a new one but before I told her she had bought a new one, now I was stuck on what to make of it. Thanks again for the video. Cheers, Billy in Canada PS hope you are surviving the craziness OK.
I have done some more work on it since and it will eat cardboard, but I do not have a vid up yet, it does take some metal working and a decent gear motor to drive it.
was there a bolt or nut peace that you connected the drill too? or what was there something in the gear assembly that you connected it to and if so, what?
have you tried plastics,cloth, or waxy cardboard? will a air compressor clean out the gunk between the cutting wheels? i've taken apart 3 paper shredders, saved the knives, and disassembled the motors- good copper, and scrap metal.
I had a junk Fellows like that a few weeks back. I took the plastic spacers out and combined spur disks onto one of the hex rods. It resembled a medieval battle rod of some sort. I was a little afraid of what the kids might do with it so I chucked it in the lathe and turned the spurs off... made some washers. I'm a little sorry now after seeing your video!
I'd be the first one to watch Ed make food...I can imagine the carnage. "Hmmm the tomatoes aren't cooperating *throws tomatoes in running engine's crankcase*"
Yes, we need a bigger motor on that, maybe variac / VFD driven. Putting those leaves in there gave me an excellent idea: That shredder would knock up a wicked coleslaw in no time at all. :D LMAO! Shredder motor pop? Yes, Mr. Photon DID pop one of those, I remember the vid. The really funny thing about it was, as he was cranking it on the variac, the motor somehow kept on repeatedly "backfiring"...yes, it made loud bangs-n-pops before finally giving up & blowing its windings. :D -BBD.
Thanks for the very interesting vid. Just wondered whether you have tried to use corrugated which is basically three or more sheets of paper? I am not worried about safety, and yes I know its wrong! I want to modify a new fellows 450 or 460 machine to remove any thickness troubles I will not be ripping anything off the top I just want advice on what to alter to get the machine to shred corrugated and not the solid type card. Any help would be gratefully accepted..
🤣 you are a funny guy, i enjoyed this video so am now a subscriber, i looked at your channel and laughed, i look forward to watching more, thank you :)
you should see my modded shredder back in korea ,its a 50 year old meat grinder"worm type" hooked up to a large 8 hp motor ,it eats everything thats feed to it from alloy stuffs like hard drives ,&ballast ,to small wooden bats ,i miss that beast
You all joke about this....I am a paper shredder repair tech. and have see this before by a client, I get a service call one day from a woman who said her shredder had stopped working. I get to her location, which is in her home, and the machine is rusting, and there is green material hanging out of the bottom of the unit. I proceed to ask her what this material, she says " cabbage and lettuces " so of coarse i ask "why were you shredding cabbage and lettuces?" Her response "i wanted to make coleslaw" ...... That's when I have to explain " It's a PAPER SHREDDER!!!! not a food processor. P.S. Fellows paper shredders advertises " The Worlds Toughest Paper Shredder" What a joke!!!! buy Kobra, Intimus, or M.B.M. Way better units that are manufactured to last.
Hahaha, why does that not surprise me that somebody actually tried making a salad with their shredder :p The Fellows ones are junk, I am surprised it still works given all the crap I have fed through it so far!. I am tempted to buy a new one just so i have a spare set of sheers for the modded one.
+Karl Buchan Lady wasn't very bright. Common sense is telling me to never put anything wet in my paper shredder because it is obvious that it will rust and become inoperable. I use my paper shredder for the purpose it was designed for and that is paper clips, staples, credits and CDs as well as papers. I had my paper shredder for many years and it is still going strong. I have a Staples paper shredder and I love it.
When dealing with low security information most people, including the medical field (H.I.P.P.A.) can shred to a level 2 or 3 cross cut. Now , When dealing with level 4,5,and 6 you start to get into more classified shredding which is more easily damaged by foreign objects other than paper.
My mother has that model of shredder... I like your one better, although it appears to need more maintenence without those pegs to strip the shredded stuff out.
there are a few, but the machines are very expensive. only big offices or companies specializing in document destruction buy them. but you can feed them whole reams at a time :D
craig scothern I've had a fellowes 11 sheet crosscut shredder going on 8 years now, still running very strong with proper maintenance. I fill the bin weekly so it gets decent use at my office. The gears will strip/wear out if you feed past its capacity and try to force the shred instead of reversing and trying to clear the jam. Some of the newer ones have a jam free feature that wont let you over feed. We just got one and it is sweet and SOOOO much quieter than my current one.
HAHA. eddy you crack me up mate, lol if you put that big motor on it on the floor' it would rip that thing apart lol ;-) I'm looking forward mate for when you get that big beast outside working!!! Awesome!! Thanx ed for sharing, THUMBS UP*
might be able to put in a lot of nuts and bolds throught the sides to clean out the grooves should stop the shafts from flexing too interesting build , loking for sumting to shred plastic 2.5 liter milkbottles to reduse its volume , this thing might do the job of i squish the bottles flat before pushing them through
disposed of plenty of "bodies" in it from dead frogs &snakes to a "catch em alive,not for long" rat trap just bait with peanut butter,they come out looking like hairy peanut butter&jelly !!
Hey Ed, how about a stiff brush to strip the residue off the rotors? Would be easier to implement a stiff bristled brush or even wire brush along side each of the rotors than to fabricate something! All in all, it's a great PotPuri maker haha :)
give it a bigger motor!!! :D weld on a nice motor mount and put on a nice high torque motor, switched by a dead mans switch of course :) to clean it i would say mount some scrapers facing downward to the sides. very nice and narly! :D
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oww, that sounds like a body disposal unit :D, nasty things! seen a few OH&S bullitins about safety around industrial meat grinders :D, if you go in, your fucked!, is pretty much what they were implying
There's not much to break so they put shitty plastic parts on purpose so you will have to buy another one. Get the stuff from 70's and 80's, it will work for decades.
lol okay. and now attach it to a big ass motor and shred some metal with it XD or let it shred itself. (you know like in cartoons where the vacuum sucks itself)
Lol I did something like this last year, feel free to check it out if you want! It's not the best but it was interesting. Aussies is clearly way better than mine lol
