So you want to buy a minion badge…

[ursulav]

Proving yet again that You Just Never Know, Do You?, there seems to be a lot of interest in Minion badges!

At the moment, the best way to get one is to e-mail me. They’re $10 plus $2 shipping US, $4 international, and the problem is that my shopping cart, while very flexible in many regards, tends to choke and die on shipping issues, so we gotta do

Comments

[krin_o_o_]

just how much do new paper cutters cost?

Are we talking the swinging machette blade of doom from the mail room paper cutter?
Or something nicer?

[ysabet]

Huh... I wrote a Detective Conan fanfic where somebody was murdered via exsanguination after having their hand cut off by one of those... very gory; they bled to death all over the copier.

[aldersprig]

There's a Bones episode where someone is murdered and ship from a ship&print, killed with one of those cutters!

[ysabet]

I'm not surprised; the one I used as a model for my murder-weapon lives at my workplace (so does the copier; every time I pass the spot where the person got killed off, I wonder what my coworkers would think about it) has a heavy wooden arm with a quarter-inch-thick blade set into it. Apparently it's meant to cut thick stacks of paper and to be removable for sharpening; all that holds it on is a wingnut.

[fenris_lorsrai]

Try tightening the bolt on the arm or when you're using it, apply some SLIGHT pressure to push the blade against side more firmly. Making sure the blade is as tight up against the block when its cutting often fixes the issue with it being "dull". It's less dull than misaligned with the block.

Or have Kevin sharpen it. YOU stay the hell away from it. We know how that would end otherwise.

[ozisim]

my mum trick for sharpening paper cutters:
put a sheet of tin foil* between 2 sheets or then paper and cut through it till the action is really easy again.
Works on punches too!

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*she doesn't actually use Tin foil... that's just what she calls Al-foil. AKA Aluminium foil.