Which oil to lube paper shredder?

[jmorriss]

paper dust, random types of oil, friction and sparks from shredded staples, all in one spot?

[John]

blade).

I the only person in this thread that sees a problem with combining paper dust, random types of oil, friction and sparks from shredded staples, all in one spot?

I used to lubricate our office shredder. Since retiring 4 years ago no-one has bothered - it is still working. (in a busy HR Dept)

[Uncle Al]

" [e-mail]" wrote: [snip]

If it needs any lube at all a Teflon dry lube spray is good enough. One could dampen a sheet of paper with Mobil 1 and run that through the shredder. Adding wet lube to a dusty environment is overall unclever.

[Norm]

replying to Spaceman, Norm wrote: I watched a vid that changed a sheet of printer paper into tracing paper by using baby oil. I don't know what baby oil is made of, but could you then run that baby oil infused tracing paper through the shredder to lubricate it?

[Serg io]

bb oil is mineral oil

[PeterC]

I'm using Johnson's Baby Oil on trimmers and clippers. For the x-cut shredder, I put some in the bottom of a lightweight C4 envelope and ran that through - it does make a difference, at least in the sound - but doesn't last very long of course. Seems to me it's difficult to keep any lube on a shredder as the paper cleans it off.

[Brian Gaff]

I would have thought it most likely to gum it all up. the bits that need lubricating asare usually the gears and motor drive, as small bits of paper dust can get into theworks. First though if you can get at the mechanism, clean it then use sewing machine oil type stuff. It has to be non sticky or it will just gum up with the paper dust. To be honest most of the shredders I've had have died due to the motor burning out or the gears, often naff plastic ones losing teeth. Brian

[newshound]

I spray the width of a piece of paper with a WD-40 type "maintenance spray" and feed that through from time to time. Mine can get compacted paper jammed around the spindle at either end of the rotating part, especially if you accidentally feed paper through at an angle so that it "folds", but it hasn't jammed since I have been more careful. When it does jam, it has to be partly dismantled to pry the stuff out with a sharp pointy object. I don't find that using oil leads to buildup of debris on the cutters elsewhere, and it certainly makes it sound faster and smoother to lubricate it every so often (perhaps every few hundred sheets).

[Huge]

Which is why you relube them every time you empty the bin.

Once I run out of the oil that comes with them, I just spray WD40 onto a sheet of paper and shred that.

[Bob Eager]

The cutting blades need lubrication. I get actual shredder oil; I only use it infrequently; so much so that the last bottle suffered from plastic decay before it was empty.

I suggest that motor burout or stripped gears could be put down to the lack of lubrication...

I did clean out a gummed ups shredder once. They are mostly self cleaning, but if paper goes right to the edge, it can get into the works.

[Me]

You can buy treated paper for lubricating a shredder, the last one I bought came with a sample pack.

[Gaby]

replying to Bob Eager, Gaby wrote: How can you own someone else's comments? BS, no, I don't want to copy this thread, just saying

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dunno. I suggest you ask google's, facebook's, twitter's lawyers....

Dribbling in from howmeowners hub again.

Sight.

that site needs pwning by hackers

[John Rumm]

Since you did not quote any of the original message, I have no idea what you talking about.

However at a guess, I would suggest you read:

In case you are not aware, you *are* posting to usenet, not a web forum.

[Fredxxx]

This might assist you with posting to a newsgroup, albeit through a website:

- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context.

The date of the post you're replying to (2008) might also suggest you're new to this.

[John Rumm]

Its interesting that HOH posters almost never reply to threads after they have commented - I expect they only get notified of new posts when they are made though the web site, and hence never see the responses from elsewhere.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Prezactly why I am as blatantly and obscenely rude as possible.

One might expect SOME reaction. There has never been any. Once concludes there is no pint in responding to them except to make a potty mess of their pretty little site.

[Fredxxx]

Are you suggesting Homeowners Hub is spamming the newsgroups?

I'm sure they would never stoop to this level!

How many genuine posts do we get from this website? Any increase on '0'?

[tabbypurr]

Occasionally people do.

NT

[Max Demian]

I've never heard of lubricating shredders. How do you do it? Would it work with my Woolies shredder, which is getting rather tired?