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by CSSer 3y ago

noisy_boy 3y ago
Similar but 4-5 times as bigger - it could have chopped my 12 year old body in half. A beast of a machine. (I don't know what has come over me - my mind is only producing grisly descriptions)
bane 3y ago
Probably more like one of these, a hydraulic guillotine cutter. https://youtu.be/RZD0XHp75S4 https://youtu.be/RZD0XHp75S4 https://youtu.be/BvLk6-OugIc https://youtu.be/BvLk6-OugIc These will easily take a hand off so most of the machines designed after the mid-80s required the operator to press two buttons as a safety to cut and a pedal to initiate the clamp. The older ones from the 70s just required a push on a pair of foot pedals, or a pedal and a single button -- which was obviously stupid. Once the safer machines came around we got those. I used to operate one as a kid in middle/high school before I went off to college. You can fit measure to sub-mm precision before clamping and making the cut. It was a really beautiful thing to see it cleave the edges off of several inches of paper like a hot knife cutting through room temperature butter. A real shame filling up bins and bins and bins of cuttings to toss in the trash (this was before recycling was a common thing). Changing the blades was quite the ordeal and you had to do it frequency to send off for regrinding. At least on the machines we had. They're basically 20+lb razer blades. Source: I grew up in a family printing business and we had machines like this to cut the margins and printer marks off of the edges of fresh printed material to help get it ready for binding or delivery. Almost every printed page goes through something like this.
- tecleandor 3y ago
  Oh, those machines are pretty satisfying to use and watch. In the 00's I did a lot of IT support for print shops (I still hate the RIP server and the Fiery, although I haven't seen one for 20 years) and the guillotines fascinated me.

Something like this? https://www.whitakerbrothers.com/products/martin-yale-7000e https://www.whitakerbrothers.com/products/martin-yale-7000e

by CSSer 3y ago

Something like this? https://www.whitakerbrothers.com/products/martin-yale-7000e https://www.whitakerbrothers.com/products/martin-yale-7000e

noisy_boy 3y ago

Similar but 4-5 times as bigger - it could have chopped my 12 year old body in half. A beast of a machine. (I don't know what has come over me - my mind is only producing grisly descriptions)

bane 3y ago

Probably more like one of these, a hydraulic guillotine cutter. https://youtu.be/RZD0XHp75S4 https://youtu.be/RZD0XHp75S4 https://youtu.be/BvLk6-OugIc https://youtu.be/BvLk6-OugIc These will easily take a hand off so most of the machines designed after the mid-80s required the operator to press two buttons as a safety to cut and a pedal to initiate the clamp. The older ones from the 70s just required a push on a pair of foot pedals, or a pedal and a single button -- which was obviously stupid. Once the safer machines came around we got those. I used to operate one as a kid in middle/high school before I went off to college. You can fit measure to sub-mm precision before clamping and making the cut. It was a really beautiful thing to see it cleave the edges off of several inches of paper like a hot knife cutting through room temperature butter. A real shame filling up bins and bins and bins of cuttings to toss in the trash (this was before recycling was a common thing). Changing the blades was quite the ordeal and you had to do it frequency to send off for regrinding. At least on the machines we had. They're basically 20+lb razer blades. Source: I grew up in a family printing business and we had machines like this to cut the margins and printer marks off of the edges of fresh printed material to help get it ready for binding or delivery. Almost every printed page goes through something like this.

tecleandor 3y ago
Oh, those machines are pretty satisfying to use and watch. In the 00's I did a lot of IT support for print shops (I still hate the RIP server and the Fiery, although I haven't seen one for 20 years) and the guillotines fascinated me.