Playtime......

As you all know, our shredder has been down for some time (probably over a month). I fed it too much into it, and it locked — blew a breaker, and also apparently an internal fuse. We reset the breaker, but then it wouldn’t get power at all.
So, true to my Connor genes, I started taking it apart — breaking the dreaded seal. I got the unit out; has a motor big enough to turn a Small-Block with 11.25-1 compression-ratio. The shredder units are essentially unjammed — and you dare not touch.
It sat for a while, and finally today I had more time to tear into it. So I started taking the shredder-unit apart. There are two small shields of the shredder-mechanism — since removed. There was a gear-case on one end between the motor and the shredder-unit: about four gears that gear everything down. The motor is probably turning about 100 times the speed of the shredder-unit. (The gears were heavily greased in plain bearings.)
I then removed an end-piece, that holds the shredder-unit in plain-bearings. Everything was Phillips-head screws.
I also removed the fuse, which was completely blown — even the glass tube. 7 amp. We shall see.
The motor-leads also pulled free, so now I am faced with reconnecting everything, but I see two tabs. It may run in reverse — or not at all.
So, bottom-line, whether or not it’s salvageable depends on whether I can get another fuse, and if so if it will run after reassembly. No ballpeen hammer — guile-and-cunning instead. Linda wonders about reassembly, but I’m a Connor. I had to test-reassemble the gearing (puzzle-time), but got it. I majored in History. Had a stroke too.