20 Most Recent Fellowes DM15C Shredder - Page 5 Questions & Answers

https://officemachines.net/laminators/faqs.asp Can you cut smaller shapes from this and have each individual item remain sealed? Answer: Yes, you can. With both self laminating and heat laminating sheets, as long as you have a border of sealed plastic at least a quarter of an inch wide completely around the item , moisture and dirt cannot get in.

Did you take it apart? sometime when you do this everything does not line up correctly and one of the sensors may be blocked. Also there maybe a small jam or the paper feed sensor could be stuck, you may even have to give it a small hit on the head with your hand- unplug it for 5 minutes for a reset- the do no like to be take apart!! they are set up tricky on purpose sometimes. leave it in the off position not in forward when its not being used even while its not working. they can really hurt you and people do take them apart so sensors is almost alway why they stop working when the motor is, it may very well have a micro controller thats keeping it from going forward without some type of reset because of a multi sensor trip.(i.e you opening the case and triggering sensors in a way that would only trigger is you disassembled ) give it time to reset https://www.6ya.com/mr.mike

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Take it apart and retrieve the sheet.

Heating element is burned out.

Solder-in fuses (and thermal fuses) are fairly common and should be available from many outlets such as good constructor stores and the sort of outlets professional repairers use. If a fuse can't be sourced there are a wide variety of conventional fuse holders available that could be grafted onto the circuit board. Once replaced, if the fuse fails again, you can be certain there is a fault that must be traced and rectified before replacing again.

Try to use the reverse action of the shredder. This runs the shredder blades in reverse and sometime CLEARS the left over shredded material that can cause a malfunction. Careful...watch your fingers as the blades are sharp and they can injure you. Never place your hands or garments near the open blades when it is plugged in. Check also that the small switch is free and clear of derbies. When the cutting gears are in place on the container box, the small actuator switch is free to turn on or off until the shredding box is full. Once the box is full of shredded material the switch will turn off (a safety provision) and you must empty the container before it will operated again.