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From: Albert Ross on 23 Mar 2010 15:39 On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:21:35 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >Our local tip has a half-container that's always fairly full of TVs >and monitors, a half-container that's always fairly full of random >electronics (mostly PCs and stereos), and a sort of enclosed skip >affair for fluoro lamp tubes large and small. Plus a lovely greasy >used engine oil thing. > >It doesn't have anywhere specific for oil filters or brake fluid, as >far as I know, but I've never had to recycle those. Our tip has a friendly and very helpful guy who decides where the different stuffs you brought need to go. Some of them he resells from his Portakabin.
From: b on 25 Mar 2010 08:31 On 21 mar, 05:38, Jeff Liebermann <je...(a)cruzio.com> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:58:33 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus > > <jan...(a)suddenlink.net> wrote: > >Then proceeded to throw laptops, PC desk tops and finally > >a complete 4-drawer filing cabinet through truck mounted > >wood chipper. > > About 20 years ago, the landlord in my office building was running an > office cleaning company[1] with a paper shredder sideline. The paper > shredder was about the size of a large dumpster. Every day, a pickup > truck load of paper would arrive and get fed to the hungry monster, > producing mountains of confetti and dust. Dust and debris would also > fall from the ceiling as my office shook and rattled from the > vibrations. This went on for about 6 months until someone > accidentally fed it the hand truck used to load the paper. I would > normally expect the shredder to just stop or to disassemble itself, > but that's not what happened. The interlocking teeth froze, the > overload switch failed, which caused the huge motor to rip away from > its mountings, smash through the side of the shredder, smash through a > decorative wood wall, and bounce off the landlords wife's car. That > was followed by a dumpster full of paper confetti initially all over > the parking lot, (...tears of laughter rolling down my face !) I would have loved to see that in action, a tour de force of destruction. Probably not funny if it was your car though! can't believe the overload protection failed, that is a ridiculous design flaw. -B
From: Jeff Liebermann on 26 Mar 2010 03:48
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:31:23 -0700 (PDT), b <reverend_rogers(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >(...tears of laughter rolling down my face !) That wasn't quite my reaction. I arrived near the end of the cleanup exercise. I wished I had thought of taking photos as I had my camera available. However, I was immediately volunteered to help with the cleanup, which went well into the evening and continued the next day. >I would have loved to >see that in action, a tour de force of destruction. It probably wasn't all that spectacular, except maybe when it went through the wooden wall. I only saw the damage. The launching of the contents was the interesting part. The place directly above the hole where the motor made its exit was the bin where the shredded paper was unloaded. It popped open, dumping the entire contents all over the parking lot. The wind did the rest. >Probably not funny >if it was your car though! There wasn't much damage to the car. It sorta bounced with a small ding. Most of the energy had been dissipated by the side of the shredder and the wooden wall. >can't believe the overload protection failed, that is a ridiculous >design flaw. We're both assuming that it had overload protection. My guess is there wasn't any. The shredder looked like a home made contraption that had never seen a safety inspection. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl(a)cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |