Back in February I bought a shredder head via Ebay-Poland. I have now just found the time to put the unit together.
Here is a link to a manual shredder that he sells (.8 mm cut). I don't have a link to the industrial shredder head.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331550977069?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Anyway, the first thing I did was make a multi- purpose frame to mount it to. I made it 11 inches tall which would allow me to attach a handle(and not scrape my knuckles when shredding) to it if I ever wanted to manually crank it. The frame was made so that I could mount the head in the upper position for hand shredding or invert and mount it in the lower position for power shredding. I don't ever really envision shredding with it manually though.
The table I already had. It was my float tray system from this past spring. I simply inverted it.
Here is a shot of the table with a hole cut into it with the shredder mounted.
I used a series of pulleys and pillow block bearings. The 1/2 hp motor I used runs at 1725 rpm, way too fast for a shredder. Using a pulley rpm calculator I used various size pulleys to obtain a shredder head speed of 191 rpm, at least in theory. When I actually measured the rpm it was 180 rpm- close enough.
To add the proper tension to the belt coming from the shredder I used this little device I welded up. There is a bolt that goes through the square tube, as I screw it in it pushes the pillow blocks away from the shredder. When the belt it tight enough I crank down the nuts.
Here's a shot of the overall system
I started to take a video of the shredder in action but my camera stopped and said I had no storage space available. I am bringing some Silver River in to case so tomorrow or Monday I will post a video.
I've only shredded about 2 dozen leaves and so far I am very impressed. This is definitely top notch, extremely well machined piece of equipment. If you shred a lot of tobacco I highly recommend buying a head and building up a system. It will be the last shredder you will ever buy. At 180 rpm the leaf gets instantly shredded. It's pretty amazing to watch.
The guy's name I bought it from is Lucas. He is located in Poland and he speaks perfect English. You can email him direct at "lukimatys@wp.pl" or contact him through ebay (link above). I will invite him to join this forum. I think he has the best power shredder on the market. Very thick steel side plates, replaceable combs and replaceable bearings.
I plan to put this through it's paces in the near future and will post the results.
If anyone is interested I can go in to great detail of the construction. I consider this a prototype. I will build a bigger table maybe this winter and incorporated some improvements.
Here is a link to a manual shredder that he sells (.8 mm cut). I don't have a link to the industrial shredder head.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331550977069?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Anyway, the first thing I did was make a multi- purpose frame to mount it to. I made it 11 inches tall which would allow me to attach a handle(and not scrape my knuckles when shredding) to it if I ever wanted to manually crank it. The frame was made so that I could mount the head in the upper position for hand shredding or invert and mount it in the lower position for power shredding. I don't ever really envision shredding with it manually though.
The table I already had. It was my float tray system from this past spring. I simply inverted it.
Here is a shot of the table with a hole cut into it with the shredder mounted.
I used a series of pulleys and pillow block bearings. The 1/2 hp motor I used runs at 1725 rpm, way too fast for a shredder. Using a pulley rpm calculator I used various size pulleys to obtain a shredder head speed of 191 rpm, at least in theory. When I actually measured the rpm it was 180 rpm- close enough.
To add the proper tension to the belt coming from the shredder I used this little device I welded up. There is a bolt that goes through the square tube, as I screw it in it pushes the pillow blocks away from the shredder. When the belt it tight enough I crank down the nuts.
Here's a shot of the overall system
I started to take a video of the shredder in action but my camera stopped and said I had no storage space available. I am bringing some Silver River in to case so tomorrow or Monday I will post a video.
I've only shredded about 2 dozen leaves and so far I am very impressed. This is definitely top notch, extremely well machined piece of equipment. If you shred a lot of tobacco I highly recommend buying a head and building up a system. It will be the last shredder you will ever buy. At 180 rpm the leaf gets instantly shredded. It's pretty amazing to watch.
The guy's name I bought it from is Lucas. He is located in Poland and he speaks perfect English. You can email him direct at "lukimatys@wp.pl" or contact him through ebay (link above). I will invite him to join this forum. I think he has the best power shredder on the market. Very thick steel side plates, replaceable combs and replaceable bearings.
I plan to put this through it's paces in the near future and will post the results.
If anyone is interested I can go in to great detail of the construction. I consider this a prototype. I will build a bigger table maybe this winter and incorporated some improvements.