Garrett Cadou

I’m involved with a group called the Suncoast Makers here in Sarasota, FL. Its a group of retired and active engineers, IT pros, draftsman, designer, etc that meet every Thursday at the Faulhaber Fab Lab. We are seeking our own open Makerspace as well for the dirtier projects people want to try, the Fab Lab is mostly a clean space.

I recommend…[Read more]

It’s literally everywhere now:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/victor-vescovo-deepest-dive-pacific/index.html

Did some work on shredder blade design with my friend Max who is a sophomore at the University Central Florida in Engineering and helps look after the Fab Lab here in Sarasota, FL when on winter break.

Here’s the google drive- open source!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8f0zsCpiiyHQNyPoK_rHUbhtLu8U1mZ/view?usp=sharing

The type of OEM shredder blades I am looking into getting.

Two different types pictured and a nice little video of how this company WANROOETECH water jets there own:

I have been meaning to share this experience- and the last time I typed this all out the post was lost so….I shall tell the story again!On Black Friday November 23, 2018 I purchase a “Vintage” Wortex HA-811 plastic granulator made around/before 1989- that I found searching the keywords “shredder” “grinder” “chipper” on Craigslist- and now will…[Read more]

So I’ve gone and bought a VINTAGE 😉 industrial Plastic Granulator. Wortex(now Conair Wortex) HA-811 – made some time in the late 1980’s and she is a beast of metal weighing upwards of 200 kilos.

This machine was designed to be used in conjunction with plastic injection molding equipment that produces LOTS and LOTS of spruce, runners, channels…[Read more]

@btmetz I think you might be talking about my friend Recycle Michael of WasteBusters and I turning his old electric lawnmower upside down and screwing a metal trash barrel to the top? Worked decently well one we changed out the single flat blade for some flimsy sheet metal ones we were able to bend up. We did a cross of the two sets of bent blades…[Read more]

sorry to get your hopes up, thats just a picture of an industrial quad axle shredder i found on google image search. I’m using a fellows 90 as well trying to retool it to be more efficient and clean auto clean the blades easier. I am thinking about getting some parts laser cut to fill in the spaces better.

How is this going guys? @edgeeffect @davidpaag I am also taking apart a bunch of shredders. I’ve done it about six times now… Right now I have a fellowes cross cut ps-79ci and a couple of Royal 12 sheet shredders. I am thinking about REALLY moding things and making a quad axle shredder