IS IT JUNK? Paper Shredder Disassembly and Repair!

[@marlenehoff8455]

I have so much respect for DIYers. Such determination! And it's so rewarding to see you got if fixed. Also, I love your song at the end :)

[@damiendoesit3126]

Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words Marlene! The song at the is by me under the name SKWEE-G. It’s called “l Do Weird Stuff” and you can find it here skweeg.bandcamp.com as well as on iTunes, Amazon Music and Spotify! Have a fantastic day!

[@marlenehoff8455]

@@damiendoesit3126 Just saw your reply. Multi-talented :) I'll check it out. Thanks!

[@RichardRoy2]

Very informative. Just bought a used one with similar cutting system. It has a jam up with damaged wheels and ejectors. Strangely, there's a couple of wheels outside of their proper position. I was wondering how to take it apart, and you've given me some insight. Thanks.

[@RestoreThis]

Hope the video was helpful! Best of luck! Thank you for dropping by

[@carstenraabe5345]

That was an excellent example of fault finding...very well done sir..I take my hat off to you..top marks for using the old brain power..

[@damiendoesit3126]

Thank you for watching! Have a great day!

[@livelongandprosper1419]

Excellent! Only suggestion is to slide the parts you are taking off onto another dowel rod or a pencil or a chop stick. Then you can just slide them off and back onto the shaft. Also on my shredders I sprayed a little Rain-X which cleaned, lubricated and coated them which seemed to help them alot. My motor keeps overheating so I am thinking of attaching a drill motor instead. Should get some more RPMs out of it too. Then I will have a turbo shredder.

[@damiendoesit3126]

That’s a great suggestion! Thanks for checking out the video. If you do make the turbo shredder, you definitely have to make a video of it!

[@edmunddrozek4728]

Very helpful tear-down video for the repair I am about to do on my old Fellows shredder. Only suggestion I have would be to have used some of the excess grease (that was seen on the metal end piece) and put that lubricating material on the adjacent plastic gears (which is probably where it was before it got squished out over time).

[@damiendoesit3126]

Edmund Drozek definitely good advice! A well lubricated gear is a happy gear!

[@khoreis818]

I put a sticky note over the lid where the lid sensor is, and that worked well

[@randyc8171]

Is there a video showing how to mesh the two shafts for re-assembly ? I am stuck there on mine.

[@damiendoesit3126]

I wish I would have filmed it in better detail. Once I for the two shafts back together, I lined them up and pressed on them and kinda rotated them back and forth. Eventually they interfaced and started meshing

[@eduardopekush9623]

Hi, fellow. How can I remove those plastic gears? Looks like they're kind stucked in the mechanism. thanks

[@damiendoesit3126]

Eduardo Pekush on mine they just pulled off

[@909sickle]

I have a similar paper shredder that only works in reverse. It didn't work at all, then I replaced the fuse and the lights / reverse now works. It's not the sensor, I put a multimeter over the sensor wires and when you click the sensor lever the multimeter beeps in continuity mode, so the sensor is working. But the motors do not activate when the sensor is pressed. Wondering if you had an ideas? Thank you.

[@christopherknotts2445]

You don't have to remove all of the shredding teeth. Just pop off the retaining clip and move it to the very end where the previous retaining clip was. This will give you enough room to spread the shredding teeth apart so you can clean out any paper that is stuck without having to remove all of them, without having to worry if they stayed in the correct order.

[@damiendoesit3126]

I didn’t just have paper jammed in mine though, I actually had teeth that were crushed and twisted on the post. I agree though, just a simple paper jam could have been fixed way easier. Thanks for checking out my video!

[@Girlgamssilver]

Is that a shedder or a table saw

[@darlenequinn193]

Why didn't you use tweezers to take the pieces of paper off the blades?

[@damiendoesit3126]

Great question! I tried tweezers, needle nose pliers and a screwdriver first but the paper was compacted too hard to pull it off. In addition, the cutting wheel blades were bend and deformed from being jammed up with paper and needed to be reshaped anyhow. Perhaps if the paper accumulation wasn’t as severe, tweezers or primers might have worked better. Thank you for watching Darlene!

[@IccyBrosSavages]

The one we had sounds like a high sound like how a car warming up

[@diablo-km2ot]

your shredder is dried up you need to put paper shredder oil or gear oil asap to loosen and after maintain it my keeping it lubed

[@robertburrows4023]

I’m just going to buy a new one! Good try. 😊

[@sandragregg941]

Couldn't see how you separated the blades. The camera was too low.

[@watcher818]

Most cutter blades are stacked in pairs of two. There might be sticky oil or something holding them together. Simply pry them apart. I think the failure of most shredders is lack of lubrication. Found out the hard way when the spacers jammed in the blades. I had to find 6 spacers, then 5 small bushings/ spacers between the blades. An online source had salvaged parts for shredders, while the brand was different, the part was basically the same. Reassembled the shredder and all works fine.

[@aunabreslingaming3279]

What it sounds like it's going to let out the blue smoke LOL

[@razorray7688]

😀 Poor kitty

[@marlenehoff8455]

i love to see kitties trying to help :)

[@marlenehoff8455]

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[@tulrob]

Sounds like a horror film

[@marlenehoff8455]

LOL

[@ravenmeyer2951]

Nice feline supervisor there. Perhaps has a bit of torti-tude.

[@damiendoesit3126]

Haha she definitely does. She’s very sassy, but a big time snuggle bug.

[@ravenmeyer2951]

@@damiendoesit3126 Oh, and the rest of the vid was very helpful today.😂

[@watcher818]

Nice kitty! They always want to "help", no matter what you're (trying) to do :) Thanks for the video sir. Good to see people defying the companies planned obsolescence design.