Another silly scrap quick project

[mattlago]

My wife holds meetings where there is a ton of content filling up white boards. The white board doesnt have enuff space so they have to erase and start over a lot.

Someone at her office came up with the idea of buying a 3 foot sheet of paper and having much more space. The added benefit is that they can look at what is written down and not erase when they start on a new sheet.

She went on amazon and got a huge roll of 3 foot paper (what cant you buy on amazon?). The only problem was handling the roll and having it unravel.

I looked around the garage and saw a small sheet of 1/4 inch for the base, some 1 inch pipe that fit inside the roll perfectly and then kicked around ideas to create tension against the roll.

I found a steel ball that weighs about 10 lbs (used for crushing copper ore) and some scrap piece of 16 guage from my gate and some corners from another project. I tacked the corners together and put them to the grinder so they were the same shape and then drilled a small hole through both to makeshift a hinge.

Since this is an office environment I put a stop so the ball wouldnt fall backwards and rounded all edges. Then spray painted to cover my poor welds. Now my wife wants me to make mini versions for paper towel holders!

 

[mattlago]

dont know if pic came thru

 

[royce]

Very nice
Well done

Royce

 

[larry_g]

nicely done, now to add the cutter.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[mattlago]

I thought about adding a piece of angle iron of the same height and ruffing some teeth or serrations on it but then thought about someone falling against it and a workers comp claim. So I took a folding razor blade and set it on there. Good enuff.

 

[ilovevocs]

I thought about adding a piece of angle iron of the same height and ruffing some teeth or serrations on it but then thought about someone falling against it and a workers comp claim. So I took a folding razor blade and set it on there. Good enuff.

Sadly this is the world we have come to live in.

Nice job.

You could always just put the angle on as a guide and use one of those sliding letter openers to cut the paper.

I use one in a similar fashion to cut vinyl on my plotter when I'm done cutting a job.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B016...ope+opener&dpPl=1&dpID=41mtLTj8icL&ref=plSrch

They seem to be rather safe from my experience.

 

[jd_1138]

It's King Kong's toilet paper dispenser. Ha.

But seriously nice job on it. It's nice using up materials that are laying around and turning them into something useful.

 

[jamesemery728]

Nice job. Happy wife happy life.

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[engineer2]

When the whiteboard gets filled, someone snaps a pic with their phone and sends it around. Erase, fill up, repeat.

 

[skrap metal]

neat

 

[BD1]

Angle iron and a piece of flat stock tacked together so paper fits inside. Pull through and slide razor knife down edge, nice straight cut .
Even some 16 gauge sheetmetal angles would work.

 

[MarkG]

Should be pretty easy to do something similar to this using angle iron (sharpened on one edge if desired) for a paper cutter. I've thought of doing something similar for my sign shop until I realized how relatively cheap they are already made. Obviously, you'd need to add some sort of 'spring tension' to hold cutter against roll in a vertical configuration.

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detai...VRbXACh2sAwLzEAQYASABEgJc1_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds