I found a shredder in the trash today which is not repairable as a shredder so I was wondering if anyone has thoughts about what the assembly could be used for. If nothing else, I can strip it down to components, which I will probably have to do anyway to get the blades off.
I am thinking it is high RPM as well. The motor shaft has a spiral gear on it. Unfortunately I cannot test it right now, as the previous owner cut the cord off and the info I can get off the motor is not turning up any results except the shredder itself.
Does it look like you might be able to keep the gears intact and be able to take the shredding blades off so you can use it geared down? It would be great to keep the shaft coming out to the shredder part intact as well. I took one of these apart one time and I can't remember if it came apart as one piece or not. I would have to guess I personally couldn't salvage it, because I don't throw away anything I might be able to use.
Blades are off, so now I have two sets of counter-rotating shafts.
One neat effect to do in the future would be cover the shafts with foam, bury the unit with a deep hole beneath and make a tombstone rise out of the earth. I don't have a yard to dig holes in though.
My theme for Halloween this year is Zombies of OZ. This is the Tin Man's head. I am using the Banshee controller from haunthackers.com with a Monster Guts 3-Axis Skull hardware. The head is made from EVA foam and will be further shaped, sealed and painted.
A quick post showing off my new software for multimedia show automation. This is a routine I quickly whipped up for my brother's 25th anniversary with his firm. It took about an hour to write the script, find media assets and do text-to-speech for the dialog, and then about 10 minutes to...
