maximum 100% shredder repair

[@SethKotta]

"It didn't seem to work, so I tried welding knives to it." A man after my own heart.

[@robertgoshey4876]

Obviously this man has several certifications. CMC: Certified Master Carpeenter. PTMS: Part Time Mad Scientist.

[@richards7909]

In Yorkshire, we only have two requirements for health and safety: 1) It doesn't kill you 2) You didn't lose any body parts Best shredder I've ever seen. Shamed it clogged up the briquette maker for now :/

[@KTM-xz9qj]

And if it does either " dunt come running ta me".

[@rootvalue]

Lovely problem solving and ingenuity. I don’t mind whether you post home improvement or shop projects, I enjoy your work in all forms.

[@cherylowilley6007]

yup

[@aljanat5375]

@New Yorkshire Workshop Eh up Russ, Im in the middle of a pickle with an NHS thingy and seem not to be able to get them to communicate via email. They seem unwilling to approve my application, councils are often slow and occasionally counter productive, please pray for me. Hope you are well, Im not free at the mo'. Hope to comment on your next vid or return to this one to give you an update. Take care of yourself big man and try to be patient with the stresses of life :-) Yours sincerely The Heartbreak Prince

[@oliverking9951]

I remember when I use to get blown away when I thought you were JUST a carpenter! Loving to watch all these extra projects!

[@PoignantPirate]

The drive gears were designed as the 'weak point' so that something hard jamming in the teeth strips the gear instead of sending tooth shrapnel all over the place. The replacement gears are probably available to 'authorized support' companies that are partnered with the manufacturer. (Similar to copiers and enterprise/corporate printers, where the end user has a support contract and a lease instead of buying the device outright)

[@Reman1975]

I used to work for a company that had this brand of shredder's repair contract. The gear is indeed a designed weak point. Without it, customers would manage to bend/snap the cutter spindles and destroy every plain bearing in the unit, then go on to demand that the whole cutter assembly had to be swapped under warranty (And they'd emphatically declare that they hadn't been trying to shred anything thicker than single pieces of tissue paper at the time it broke either............ The waste bin/knacker cutter head being chocked full of shredded CD chunks was totally coincidental and entirely unconnected !!!). The cog's WERE readily available direct from the manufacturer. Not cheap, but significantly cheaper than buying a new large office shredder. The problem is that this model was superseded a good 10 to 15 years ago, and I doubt anyone's still stocking OEM parts for it anymore. Mechanically the shredders were actually pretty robust units (Apart from the "Idiot indicator gear"), the weak point of this generation was usually the electronics. If the circuit boards and sensors NYW have from these two are still in working order they might fetch a reasonable price on eBay, as I'm pretty sure they'll have been unavailable new for many years now. The only issue I could see him having with running this head THAT quick is, under the head are little plastic combs that guide the paper out from between the cutter blades (amusingly named "Stripper fingers"). These would snap and fall off on "High mileage" shredders due to fatigue from the constant flexing as they hit clumps of paper between the cutters. I'm pretty sure the extra speed, and using it on cardboard will give them a hard (And pretty short) life.

[@aljanat5375]

@New Yorkshire Workshop I do want to say I hope you keep on posting as I have a real desire to see you work on projects. Not sure I enjoy anyone else's woodwork as much as yours on KZbin. Take care not to harm yourself, you are valued and trusted to make informative and helpful content by a lot of us. Thanks for the new upload too mate. :-)

[@horstszibulski19]

@@Reman1975 For sure the CD particles and the wrapped around paper clips are pure coincidence... :-D Customers... :-D

[@Reman1975]

@@horstszibulski19 Yeah. They're all happy to abuse the hell out of the office equipment, but moan like hell about the "Shoddy quality" of the stuff when their abuse eventually breaks it. It would be like them entering a brand new car into a demolition derby, then complaining to the manufacturer that it "Shouldn't have crumpled like that from a butterfly landing on it" (And showing the car to the warranty assessor without even cleaning off the mud, paint transfer, and stencilled on race numbers first !). :D

[@horstszibulski19]

@@Reman1975 It broke with no reason- Andrew Camarata... :-D

[@kawonnowak]

You need to give it a name. Warthog would do it. Sounds just like an A10. And almost as scary. Brilliant work.

[@grizcuz]

I think you're the epitome of what my old man and his old school engineering mates would call: HANDY. You know what Yorkshire blokes are like, if something was top notch and out of this world, they'd probably say it was all reet, or not too bad, that was about the most they'd praise anything or anyone. So to be known as HANDY [meaning you could successfully have a go at anything, from rebuilding a car engine on a kitchen table to an extension on a house] was to hold someone in the highest regard. I'm not, nor have I ever been HANDY, much to my dad's disappointment. But I enjoy watching people who are, as it's like watching someone doing magic to my cack-handed self.

[@mikefisher9992]

That shredder has got a real snap to it, reminded me of Arkwright till.😁😁

[@hilarylonsdale608]

Exactly what it reminded me of too!

[@twocvbloke]

Ferferferferferfetch your cloth Granville!!! :P

[@michaelmcclafferty3346]

Great job. You are a very skilled fella. You could also mix the cardboard with green material to make compost to grow vegetables. Alternatively, sell bags full to businesses that ship fragile goods.

[@davidankenbrand6503]

😳 Mr Russ, I think you are a very ingenious man. Your problem solving ability is top notch. Thanks for your work.

[@TheWolfster001]

They do make shredders that make more like confetti.. That could work, or just use it for a different kind of logs.. There is a a water type, mix your shredded cardboard, some sawdust and water, then press them into a desired shape.. There are hundreds of videos on doing it.. I make mine manually just using a weighted lever pressing.. It only takes seconds to make them, but they do take time to dry, I find they burn better and last longer, then just using sawdust.. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching...

[@stevejohnson1685]

I can only envision the headline "Yorkshire Man Killed By Shredder, Briquetted"! Don't wear a necktie around that thing. If you can run it submerged, you could pulp the shredded cardboard in water, squish it into briquettes, then pipe the moist little turds around the outside of your furnace until the moisture has been driven off. You'd solve three problems at once: Too much scrap, not enough humidity, and too little heat 🙂 It's always great fun to watch your creativity in action.

[@catgynt9148]

You need the head from a cross cut shredder. Produces smaller bits rather than long lines. Thanks for sharing this insightful video. Wishing you and your family a blessed new year. Cheers

[@1x3dil]

A case of back to the drawing board, but knowing what a skilful person you are it won’t get the better of your good self . And given time the answer will come to your amazing inventive mind of yours Best wishes and kind regards.

[@groundspeed3954]

Another example of your creativity, which keeps me tuned to your channel.

[@ronaldeisel5927]

Perhaps a "worm drive" (feed screw) would eliminate the jamming issue,

[@thecarlob_007]

You sir are an absolute genius of epic proportions

[@Apodictic1]

Awesome, that would be great for my compost pile. Much better than cutting up cardboard with a utility knife. My worms would think they were dinning at a fancy restaurant.

[@maschaeffer]

I loved the entertainment of just watching the cardboard being ran through it. It’s one of the funniest and totally unexpected things I have watched in a while. Sorry it didn’t work as hoped for, please follow up if you get it working.

[@ChristianN-]

Just recently found your channel and I get so happy when you post. Love to see how you overcome problems and MacGyver yourself on. Great stuff.

[@billfear1]

You can hear the machine say "thankyou...mmmmm" when its fed. Great upload sir!

[@JohnnyMotel99]

Place a hopper over the shredder and see if it will re-shred the shreds?

[@Plataani]

I was about to suggest the same idea, bit of a larger hole and some kind of schute and just re-shred that pulp.

[@badlarry172]

great idea

[@kpkp42]

Use the second set of teeth as a second stage to reshred what was just shredded

[@bushranger51]

@@kpkp42 Yeah that'd work, it looked like his shredding was a bit too coarse for the hopper, after all he is using sawdust there, and that works.

[@markdunford3181]

Found your channel by accident whilst isolating due to poxy Covid!!! Now I’m hooked…(to your channel, not covid!) Wish I had your patience and ingenuity. Your eye for detail and skills are second to none mate. Plus, it’s great to watch videos without a load of chat and ‘boom-chicca-boom’ music. Thank you 👍👍

[@alexlang5308]

Genuine half-life crow bar! :)

[@Paethgoat]

I absolutely love to follow your work. It's this constant stream of "fix problem, find new problem" and the process fascinates me.

[@joeblow3939]

❤❤ Put your paper in a bucket cover it with water. Let it soak overnight. Then hit it with a paint paddle mixer or drywall mud mixer. Now it becomes like mud. Press out the water to make logs.

[@denzbushpig6978]

I haven't laughed so hard for a while, have you calculated the infeed speed rate, it's incredible.. love your videos..

[@viriato8566]

Don't see a fail here. I'm sure you walked away with valuable experiences & insights. Doubtless these will produce another brilliant contraptive device in due course. Bet a community garden/allotment would take some for mulch & compost too. Rock on my friend.

[@TimothyJesser]

Absolutely loved this video. The creativity, as always, was fantastic. I even love the “failure.” A crosscut shredder should solve the issue you faced. Good luck!

[@-abacchus]

My workshop ends up with a lot of cardboard boxes, but that amount is crazy!! That is by far the quickest shredding machine I've ever seen!! I'd love one, but found a mouse roaming around my workshop, so might just leave it to him to nibble away at the cardboard!

[@jaycosgrove9765]

Great project, even though it didn't work 100%, but I still prefer your briquette project. That was amazing.

[@mmmdesignllc]

i dont care if it was not a total success, it was awesome!!!

[@twocvbloke]

This is the sort of thing I miss the late Aussie50 for, he made a few crazy shredders in his time (though more for metal munching), though this creation had me giggling just as much as his, the speed that it ate the cardboard (and the resulting pile!), that was hilarious!!! :D Nice work there, really well done... :D

[@assassinlexx1993]

As one of the many armchair viewers. I thought maybe a screw style system to load into the ram. So instead of a small round hole it could be long oval-shaped hole with taper sides. Good luck with what ever you design. Oh one more thing could you add a couple bend sheet metal to help feeding that fantastic shredder.

[@JOSEPH-vs2gc]

If this guy just sat there and problem-solved stitching floral Crochet... i'd probably watch it.

[@infopubs]

I barked with laughter at the first shredded piece!

[@arty1799]

Brilliant videography! No gaudy music and no extraneous tongue-wagging. I wonder if a set of slower revolving pinch rollers in front of the shredder could force the shredder to nibble the cardboard into confetti rather than strips. Even if the goal was not achieved, the journey was a pleasing experience. Cheers.

[@DwarvenStoutbrew]

OMG I want one. That looks like a ridiculous amount of fun. BBBRRRRRRRRRTTTT!

[@Weissman111]

To quote Mr Spock - fascinating.

[@tazmaniachill]

Or even “make it so mr Spock”

[@wolfparty4234]

Now this, even Tim the tool man Taylor would love having that on the show!! The Binford B8000 Shredder!!💪🏼👍🏻🤣😵‍💫 I can see his tie getting shredded up in there!🤣 Much❤️🙏🏻🍻

[@woody1320]

At least you have a high speed shredder, well done as always!!

[@jimdalvic3094]

Try raising the rotor, and fastening on trailing plastic fins to push the sawdust and cardboard into the hole. The trailing fins will flex upwards and prevent jamming.

[@timderks5960]

This would probably be a good situation for a flywheel. You already have the large wheel spinning, it has a duty cycle of somewhere between 30 and 50%, and it bogs down as you use it. Still, it's the most awesome shredder I've ever seen though, would've loved to see that one in an office, lol. About the press problem: You could try saturating the paper with water, mixing it into a pulp, and then drying it. As long as you don't press it down while drying, and mix it up from time to time, it should result in a relatively loose material. It'd be a pretty time consuming process though.

[@jaymzx0]

Yea, crimping a significant number of tire weights to the inside of the outer edge of the large wheel should give it enough mass to plow though just about anything. At that point I would be concerned about the wheel spokes, however. It appears to be cast magnesium or aluminum and it could either detonate or just shear the hub clean off.

[@Preso58]

Good for garden mulch, rabbit hutches, chicken coops, low budget wedding confetti etc, etc.

[@partytempo]

Could you feed the cardboard shreds with an Archimedes screw? It seems like the shreds need to extruded into the chamber and less like a "hopper" 🤔

[@CheveeDodd]

I never know what to expect when you post, but it's always amazing!

[@JamesNeale1]

I watch for the engineering and creativity. I subscribe for the Half Life crowbar and random fork moments. Thanks for sharing!

[@Davethe12th]

The slight look of panicked confusion when it turned on is one that I have experienced many many times.

[@PurpleTT99]

Bloody Nora that thing's vicious. Love it!

[@David40S]

Great idea. Looks like you also need a fleet of bored gerbils to shred the stuff more finely.

[@emanuellandeholm5657]

You had me at shredder. Also, I just love how you effortlessly switch from woodworking to metalworking to some weird crossover. I'm sure you upset both camps equally! :D

[@aldman]

How about adding rubber "wiper" to the briquette feeder. Sort of a squeegee for each arm that drag on the bottom of the hopper? I suggest using strips of lorry mudflaps. Older mudflap are made of rubber and nylon, much longer wear than the newer type made of instead of plastics/silicone and cord. I used small rectangular pieces on each of my snowblower impeller blade to scrape the impeller housing. Stops snow from "packing" itself in the housing and turn to ice whilst throwing it further out the chute.

[@naomiquirion7725]

I could watch you for hours!

[@recklessroges]

So this is a total success. Just needs a new [hopper] -> [press] design for these new larger "particle" sizes. (Bonus points if it can play nicely with the existing one.) I'm guessing something like a tapered augur is going to win. (So a horizontal cone that arrives perpendicular to the press chamber, with blades that start out with a space that is half the length of these new "chips".) [Larger would have a higher flow rate, but that would require more metal.]

[@mattnoyes7729]

I bloody love it, what a bonkers machine!!

[@mflabkanonier]

I just spit my tea all over my couch because i was laughing to hard when the shredder sucked the first piece of cardboard in. P.S.: Gordon Freeman called, he want's his crowbar back..!

[@samanthabaines3578]

"A right bugger to get off" spoken like a true Yorkshireman!!

[@laurencemorgan2277]

Love your work fella always a massive pleasure watching your ingenuity. Could you make a hopper and feed from first shredder head into second head it would probably make it small enough to ho through the briquette machine, or maybe put them through again.

[@johnhull2941]

you my man are so cool to watch love this channel

[@krenwregget7667]

you have an impressive skill set. Great stuff.

[@heru-deshet359]

As a gadgeteer myself this was great fun to watch.

[@tbavister]

Marking a smaller concentric hole using a washer, 3:27, was worth the admission price alone!

[@hodwooker5584]

This is a great idea for garden mulch!

[@aqua123]

This is some MyMechanics stuff. Great re-engineering!!

[@cliveclapham6451]

Very satisfying to watch. 👍👍👍 Have you seen the videos where people shred polystyrene foam packing with a drum and an upside down rotary lawnmower🤔 although thinking about it it you have an old cylinder mower turning that upsidedown and running the shredded cardboard through that might work as cylinder mowers cut the blades of grass in small pieces which looks to be the problem in the brickett pooper outer.

[@rossbuchanan4425]

Love your wonderful sense of humour. Why do I get the impression that for all your brilliance, your wife is going to look at you and just shake her head at this latest venture .

[@Vickie-Bligh]

You inspired me to find a cardboard shredder now.

[@robinfulton9057]

You gave it a heck of a try and I'm sure you will get it the way you want.

[@EddieSchirmer]

awesome project haha. definitely need a slower speed feeder into the press. like some others said maybe some sort of screw that could feed it into the press tube at an angle but with a guaranteed rate of feed. so, perhaps have the bin for it with a set angle down to the screw or coil hopper on a slow speed high torque motor so that it will feed into a tube. then at the end of the tube you could have a 90 degree angle right into a press tube with the size mold you want. then it would continuously feed it in and you could have set clearances between the material, the crew, and the press head itself.

[@nick1bb1]

Brilliant! so ingenious and had me spitting out my coffee re the half life crow bar!

[@capitalinventor4823]

I just found your channel a couple of days ago and you produce some amazing work. Thank you for sharing your ideas with the world. The only thing I would be concerned about is that you left the tape on the boxes when you shredded them. Tape, especially the shiny shipping tape or tape used to mark packages as fragile (timestamp 15:36), will produce dangerous toxins when burnt. I know that there isn't much much, and I haven't seen the video in which you built the press so I don't know how you burn the briquettes, but I believe that it's best to minimize exposure as much as possible. A few minutes beforehand to remove the tape from the boxes would be easy to do and remove the possibility of exposure.

[@jean-marcheu7428]

Wood is a renewable energy and even if there are some labels, my time, it is not really serious.

[@fyremoon]

A solution could be to soak the shredded cardboard into a pulp then press through a mesh to drain the water. Soaked cardboard weakens the fibres so it won't be such a problem to press, however the briquettes would need to dry before they will burn. You may need to adapt the press to squeeze out the water and then leave the cardboard briquettes to dry.

[@cgoodwin2875]

It would be great packaging if all the cardboard boxes hadn't died to make it. Enjoyable video, thanks for posting.

[@PHUSII]

That is dangerous looking and sounding! Love it! :D

[@pxcollinson3046]

Excellent thank you for sharing 👌💓

[@sensurround]

You are such a genius. Adoring Greetings!

[@precisionistone8600]

Fantastic work a pleasure to watch. Love how you supercharged a paper shredder into a wood chipper 👍👍. Also when you're using the drill press I was thinking doesn't this guy have a drill press vise and then later I saw you use it lol

[@ianvicedomini2648]

Nice one russ. Shame it's not a cross cut shredder as the log maker would've worked a lot better. Still a great try though mate

[@Reman1975]

That model actually was a cross cut, but they were designed to cut up to (IIRC) 17 sheets of A4 at a time, so they kept the shredding's just under the maximum size allowed for a particular rating of security standard. If they made each blade narrower, and added more cross cut lobes to them to make the sheading's finer, the amount of force required to turn the thing would mean less paper could go through at a time. Office managers tend to only look at the maximum page throughput of shredders when choosing one, so cutting finer would have meant lower throughput and lower sales figures. They did do a smaller model with a designation of something like "Super fine" or "Ultra fine" after the model number, and they spat out tiny chunks of paper smaller than grains of rice (if you only used non glossy paper in them, it was very good as hamster or guinea pig bedding apparently), but the maximum A4 pages at a time went down to something like 5.

[@167curly]

Who's a clever boy? Methinks that Heath-Robinson was your granddad, but more seriously, what great ingenuity!.

[@jimato01]

Love your method ! IMHO Needs a slower feed, shredder speed is prob just fine. I'm also wondering what would happen if you added a mist of waste oil to the briquets as they're being processed. Thinking the briquets may stick together better, lubricate the feed tube and not clog the system. Love your channel.

[@its9429]

That was so cool. Thanks for sharing!

[@RubenKelevra]

If you slow things down you can probably increase the intake size massively, up to a size where it can feed itself from a container full of cardboard. You could then add a secondary stage with the second cutting blades to chop the long string randomly up - or you modify one set of blades to have intersecting blades within the stripes, to make cuts within the stripes. There are all purpose cutters which basically do this to make small chunks.

[@kevsbuild2807]

A slight mod if you'll permit, me, flip it 90 degrees in line with a table etc so you don't have to be so exact feeding it, and on the outlet side put a 45 degree baffle to make the bits fall into the tub.

[@iNerdier]

Looks like a great way to remove pesky excess fingers you might have in its current state.

[@bigian279]

What about mounting the other shredder under the first and shredding the shreds - or will that just block the second shredder up. You'd probably need some kind of hopper in between the two shredders. Whatever the case it would look impressive! :-) What about thick rubber wipers on the bottom of the brickette maker rotor instead of blades?

[@badlarry172]

good ideas🙂

[@MrHighflyingclive]

You were fortunate - usually shredder gears fail because the user overloaded the machine. Human nature says that if you give someone a 20-sheeet shredder, they will try to stuff 25 sheets through it. This usually results in the two bars that support the teeth being bent like bananas - at which point the machine is beyond economic repair. I would also have expected to see some broken teeth. (Yes, I have dismantled dozens of shredders!) A great effort and an interesting solution. I'm not aware of any commercial shredder that will run as fast as yours! But please don't use WD40 on your shredder. It leaves a sticky residue that will attract paper dust and cause you grief in the future.

[@irondsd]

I think some kind of thick brushes would work on the rotor. Soft enough to not get jammed, but hard enough to move some sawdust or cardboard. Or thinner metal blades that could deflect in case of jamming.

[@jeremyboyce7921]

What about adding a hopper and second stage to grind the shreds from the first shredder?

[@loismaudson6322]

you never give up, well done.

[@akiko009]

Love it. Maybe change the feed chamber for the briquette maker into an angled rotary drum. That should feed pretty much anything.

[@PSOT]

Genuine Halflife Crowbar 😅👍 Love you my friend😁🍻🥩👍

[@maxbeck3577]

Really like your videos. Interested to know if you are an engineer that has a passion for woodworking or vice versa?

[@MF_VML]

You want to get the fella from "My Mechanics" to "make you a new one" of those gears :D Making recycled packaging is a good shout though.

[@redskins43]

happy new year....so talented... cheers!

[@thad7496]

That fork my friend! Impressive!

[@naurisb3142]

I would put the other shredder under this one and maybe run it a bit faster. Actually no, I'd put it on top try to figure out how to make it slower. Also flywheel. By the way, I still can't get over how good that watch face table top looked. Awesome work.

[@philleeson7835]

Try a rubber skirt on each arm rather than the blades to act as a sweeper. Also try some type of hopper feed/chute into the second shredder to break the bits down futher

[@zollstocks]

Thinking about the shredder: When you add the cutting drum of an classic lawnn mower just below the outfeed of the vertical cut, you get a cross-cut effect leaving small bits. They should feed well into the press. (And now back to the question, if the paper binds to briquettes under pressure)

[@NomadMakes]

First the wood pooper and now the woodworker eater 6000 :D Great video. Love the houmor. Too bad it failed. Cheers.