Now that Smallparts is gone

Take a look at

They don't sell parts, but they do have the smallparts catalog as a pdf, and they have a forum with discuss ion on where to get stuff. Much of the smallparts stuff is available from A mazon. Use the catalog to find what you want, then look for it on Amazon. I 've had pretty good success with that.

I meant to post this when I found out about it, then forgot (it's only been 10 days).

Here:

You may also want to try Stock Drive:

and WM Berg (Google it).

You may be SOL unless you also replace the matching part -- gears are one of those things that are easy to custom-make if you're building over 1000 of something, and there's probably a hundred times that many little paper shredders in the world.

Create an STL file and have one 3d printed? Or maybe this one would work:

Maybe I'll use your plasma to make flat panels out of the utility bed and take that trailer home with me. BUT, I still don't have room for a large mill.

Aurora got back to me with a price on a gear kit, $15 shipped. Not too bad for a 32 cent plastic part.

Ah yew a dahktah? Luer fittings and hypo syringes galore, but, alas, no shredder gears.

Egad! I'd have to disassemble and precisely measure it first to use their site. ;)

I doubt a mismatch would be the case, since it's a milled metal shaft against a nylon gear, with nylon to nylon on the secondary gear on the back, but one never knows. But with me retiring, I'm pondering the true need for a shredder in the first place. I can burn my personal papers throughout the burn season up here, so I probably won't spend even that measly $15 on the gear set. It was a fun 40-minute romp tearing apart the shredder, though. 'Tis an amazingly heavy beastie which sold for a mere $46 new.

--Small Parts is gone but Stock Drive Products is still around.