I did see them when Googling but clicked on when I couldn't go get one from them.
I think you are right, the reasonably sized one I have at the moment seems to cut (thermal, auto reset) fairly quickly no matter how hard / gently you use it.
The one I had before that was quite chunky (all steel) and felt like it would eat a sheet of MDF (and may have handled CD's )
All the best ..
T i m
Indeed. I am probably going to hit it in batches though .. shredding stuff only keeps me entertained for so long .. ;-)
You sure this wasn't after your leaving 'do' and you were actually cooking popadoms?
cooking tongs probably ;-)
I stand mine on edge on in a wire rack to drain ..
If you haven't eaten them all by then of course ...
I'm not sure about 'toxic' but they do set our smoke alarm off ... oh, CD's ...doh ! ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
LOL .. (thanks) ..
T i m
On 8 Jan 2007 17:23:33 GMT someone who may be Huge wrote this:-
Combination ovens aren't too bad with pies, though this depends on the programming.
Small quantities of CDs can be done in a shredder advertised as suitable for CDs. All the usual suspects do them, for example Argos. Otherwise a coal fire, log burner or garden shredder will do the job with minimal fuss. The more determined can use the RAF's former approach to getting rid of poison gas, pile them on a large bit of concrete, add suitable amounts of fuel such as napalm and fire a machine gun with incendiary rounds into the pile. Gas hobs are not a good idea.
Nobody would be able to get any info of theme surely ! Ignorance is bliss.
Dual purpose.
There are a few financial traders I know (the prima donna sort) who would benefit (or more exactly mankind would benefit) from having their red braces inserted into one of these.
;-)
We had someone who got their tie caught in a shredder. This was followed promptly by the display of copius warning messages about the risks of using a shredder...
I had also thought of running them in little stacks through the band saw but from memory that material (polycarbonate?) melts if not cut slowly (so your quartering sounds like a reasonable solution) ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
Have you seen how much the big commercial ones cost?
In the thousands of pounds some of them.
I used to work somewhere where we had 3 of them, depending on the security of the document being shredded. One of them produced what looked like cotten wool out the back. My boss used to take all his paperwork and drop it in that one. On one occasion, I asked him why, as what he was shredding wasn't in the least bit sensitive information. "Makes really good bedding for my rabbits and hampters" was the reply...
I put our home shredder output on the compost heap.
|On 2007-01-14, Andrew Gabriel wrote: |> In article , |> Derek Geldard writes: |>> |>> Have you seen how much the big commercial ones cost? |>> |>> In the thousands of pounds some of them. |>
|> I used to work somewhere where we had 3 of them, depending on |> the security of the document being shredded. One of them produced |> what looked like cotten wool out the back. My boss used to take |> all his paperwork and drop it in that one. On one occasion, I |> asked him why, as what he was shredding wasn't in the least bit |> sensitive information. "Makes really good bedding for my rabbits |> and hampters" was the reply... | |I put our home shredder output on the compost heap.
Mixed with soil I hope.
Tsk. How dare you imply that my compost is anything but wonderful. My wife thinks it is bloody marvellous stuff. Dark brown, rich, crumbly, sweet smelling, it's like chocolate cake.
|On 2007-01-15, Dave Fawthrop wrote: |> On 14 Jan 2007 14:53:29 GMT, Huge wrote: |>
|>|On 2007-01-14, Andrew Gabriel wrote: |>|> In article , |>|> Derek Geldard writes: |>|>> |>|>> Have you seen how much the big commercial ones cost? |>|>> |>|>> In the thousands of pounds some of them. |>|>
|>|> I used to work somewhere where we had 3 of them, depending on |>|> the security of the document being shredded. One of them produced |>|> what looked like cotten wool out the back. My boss used to take |>|> all his paperwork and drop it in that one. On one occasion, I |>|> asked him why, as what he was shredding wasn't in the least bit |>|> sensitive information. "Makes really good bedding for my rabbits |>|> and hampters" was the reply... |>| |>|I put our home shredder output on the compost heap. |>
|> Mixed with soil I hope. | |Tsk. How dare you imply that my compost is anything but wonderful. My wife |thinks it is bloody marvellous stuff. Dark brown, rich, crumbly, sweet |smelling, it's like chocolate cake.
If we put all our waste paper, shredded, in the compost heap, it *would* be a solid lump of damp paper, even with soil or activator.
I put garden waste, kitchen waste (peelings and coffee grounds, mostly), flattened cardboard boxes and shredded confidential papers on the compost heap. Non confidential papers go in the dustbin. ("Confidential" is anything that has a name and/or address on it, or anything more private than that.) I no longer put grass cuttings on it, mainly because we no longer pick them up - it takes 2 or 3 times as long to mow the grass and the volume of cuttings was a problem (we have about 3/4 acre of lawn.)
It takes about a year to turn into the afore-mentioned compost, mainly because ICBA to turn it regularly. I run two heaps, one that's being used and the other that's being added to. I made the containers out of left-over fencing posts and rails. The compost really is wonderful. I don't know why people make a fuss about making compost - it appears to be simple.
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