Shredder Challenge!

Welcome to Shredder Challenge Eleven.....

Item to Shred: A can of Diet Coke.....

Aim: Hmmm.  Ever been in the kitchen feeling like something tasty to drink?  You open the fridge..... there's nothing there apart from a can of Diet Coke.  You know you don't like it..... you know its not the 'real thing'..... but what the heck..... it can't be as bad as you remember..... its cold and fizzy after all.... you drink it...... your disappointed..... yet again.

We'll today I'm venting this frustration.  Today I'm gonna shred that can.

Hypothesis: The ends of the can will not shred but I reckon we can give the rest of the can a good crack....

Result: Diet Coke = Diet Smoked! 

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Ten.....

Item to Shred: Elephant.....

Aim: You can't get much bigger than an darn Elephant.  I mean come on, this is an EXTREME challenge!

Hypothesis: The inflated Elephant may take a few reverses and goes.  But, I think it will be bye-bye Monsieur Ele-phant.

Result: Ele-shreded.

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Nine.....

Item to Shred: Nicolas Cage.....

Aim: To expunge the memory of his roles in such movies as City of Angels, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and 'It Could Happen to You'.  These roles caused me pain.

Hypothesis: Nicolas Cage will put up no fight.  And I will feel happier.

Result: Gone in 6 seconds..... and I feel strangely soothed.

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Eight.....

Item to Shred: Banana Peel.....

Aim: The office has gone on a health kick, and people are buying fruit together.  More to the point, the peel just seemed too good a challenge to waste.

Hypothesis: After the pot plant challenge a week or so back, I am uncertain if the thick peel will go through the shredder.  If you cast your mind back, the base of the pot plant stem was  un-shred-able.

Result: Bananas are slimy filthy things.  I had to push, and at one stage pull, each section of the peel through.  The banana then picked up all the dirt built up from previous challenges, i.e. the tea bag, and turned into a dirty, sticky, slimy, filthy mess.  However, the shredder was able to chomp its way through all but the hard stalk of the peel. And I was left to ponder if peel is the secret to the out and out awesome chewy-ness of the Mighty Perky Nana chocolate bar....  Will we ever really know???

 

 

 

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Seven.....

Item to Shred: Roll of toilet paper.....

Aim: A time trial to see how fast this shredder really is.  Two ply toilet paper seemed a fair enough test.

Hypothesis: No land speed records will be at risk.

Result: It took the shredder 5 min 17.63 seconds to eat up 25.6m, one roll, of toilet paper.  This gives the shredder a massive speed of..... 0.29 km/hr! At this speed it would take the shredder a mere 143 years to travel the 363,300 km to the moon.  Oh yeah, with the help of one really, really, really long extension cord that is.

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Five.....

Item to Shred: Pot Plant.....

Aim: See how easy it would be to start a work compost programme.

Hypothesis: Leaves will shred fine - stems and roots an issue.....

Result: The shredder had an issue with the thick base of the stems.  Other than this, the shredder proved to be a mighty fine mulcher.  Perhaps this is the start of a green office.....

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Four....

Item to Shred: Tea Bag.....

Aim: To find out how a tea bag will perform under presure.

Hypothesis: Tea everywhere!

Result: A quick and relatively clean kill.  But, a rather average cuppa.....

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Three.....

Item to Shred: Tie.....

Aim: Today there is a double aim.  Firstly, myth busting..... can a shredder really eat a tie so quickly that you'd be in trouble?  Secondly, the disposal of a sadly unwanted Xmas present.

Hypothesis: The tie will get jammed a third of the way through, forcing the abandonment of today's challenge.

Result: The shredder sent a clear message.  Don't let your tie get anywhere near a shredder!

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge Two.....

Item to Shred: Pirate eye patch.....

Aim: Ahoy me-harties, today's exercise is to see how the Shredder deals with Pirates.....

Hypothesis: Eye patch is plasticy but should shred right nicely.  Elastic is the challenge here..... I'm picking that this will stop the shredder in its tracks.....

Result: The shredder eats Pirates for breakfast!

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Welcome to Shredder Challenge One.....

Item to Shred: Half a roll of Xmas paper.

Aim: To shred completely.

Hypothesis: Shredder will jam very quickly.

Result: While a full shred was not achieved, even after a couple of reverse and goes, I did end up with a rather nice Olympic flame.....

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