A few years ago I bought a second hand guillotine, a Dahle, with a spare blade. Since then it has stood in a corner of my workshop, barely ever used. I have, however, finally got round to getting the spare blade sharpened and yesterday I fitted it.
What a job! The blade is literally razor sharp and about 18 inches long - better not to think about the consequences if it dropped on wrist or finger - which has to be pushed up a very tight slot before it can be screwed into position. The only way to lever it up this slot was balanced on the ends of two allen keys alternately jerked sharply upwards. It took me two hours, and one nicked finger.
Despairing at one stage of ever managing to get the wretched thing back into place I rang a friend of mine who is by way of being an expert on odd jobs like this. Her husband put it very succinctly "damn things those Dahle's they've got so many saftey devices you can hardly get at 'em"
Turing to another subject altogether, BT are still trying to sort out my web-site desing problem (see A Great IT Blog for more details)
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