On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:43:34 +0000, Victoria Clare
wrote:


No, this was not a jam: nothing was stuck at any point, and I tried it
again several hours later - still no joy, so it's not the thermal cutout
either. The engine failed. I rang the helpline in the end, and that's what
they said.

There are only a few things you can do to a shredder if it's not working,
and believe me, I did them!

Is it electric? Did you check the fuse in the plug? Did you try the
socket/RCD and as much of the connecting cable as possible with a
different appliance to eliminate non-shredder faults?

(Apologies if all this is obvious, but *I've* been caught out by
assuming that I know where a fault is on more than one occasion!)
--
Stuart Baldwin
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