If only I had the cash and space. It's a Fellowes DM65C. I'm glad I didn't
pay for it. I know what brand I won't be buying too.
Karl


"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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Karl Vorwerk wrote:
I wish I had the hardware to do it. MY main metalworking tools are a drill
press and an angle grinder. The angle grinder is getting more and more
tempting as I try to fix it and fail.

Of course, the traditional answer here is "But that gives you
the excuse to buy the tools. :-)"

The necessary tools *can* be bought cheaply -- but not quickly,
and you have to *want* to be able to do this sort of thing yourself.

I'm interested in what kind of paper shredder would use a Nylon
gear in the first place. I've worked on two (I own one of them), and
both used a heavy-duty chain drive with all metal gears. No use of
Nylon anywere in there. And there are serious amounts of force
involved, especially in a high-security shredder such as the one which I
fixed at work -- not the one which I have. :-) The high-security one
cuts paper to strips about 1/32" wide, and cuts the strips into 1/4"
long segments.

Of course, one of them I was not able to fix without external
supplies. Someone fed it a bundle of papers with a binder clasp on it.
The binder clasp messed up quite a few of the cutters on both (meshing)
cutter bars. (It also made a *lot* of noise when it failed, as the
chain drive snapped at one link. It was powered by about a 3HP 3-phase
motor.

My own came from a surplus sale, and was producing continuous
strips about 1/4" wide. But examination of it showed that the cutter
bars could be re-stacked to produce cuts 1/3 as wide, or about 1/12". I
did that, and one side effect was to reduce the number of pages which
could be cut at once without stalling the motor. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.
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