Final Thoughts...
So there you have it. This was a fairly simple and fun build-out to do. It was a fair bit cheaper than buying an “industrial” solution, and operates very well. But as with most unusual mods, many philosophical questions came to light during the implementation of this project, primarily:

Why do we have to either call a service, or stand over a shredder to shred our documents?

If paper = wood, shred = chuck and printer = woodchuck, then (wait for it...). How much wood could a woo….. nevermind.

There are more things you could do to extend this project: You might build it to print the pages, and directly feed them back into the shredder, for instance. This might not be as useful, but it could be loads of fun! This is especially good for TPS reports.

All things considered, the cost on this was about right, and way less than the out-of-the-box solution. We built something useful that operates quite well, we had fun in the process, and our friend Mike is eternally grateful to us for solving his dilemma.

Until next time. . .