Yesterday I received, through UPS, my own perforator built by
Spencer Chase. I'd like to say thank you to Spencer and that also
he will be reimbursed for the shipping hopefully very soon as
I need to mess around with PayPal to get his money to him.

I also ordered 100 rolls worth of flanges, tabs, and cores as
well as 1200 feet of paper. I did the calculations and also checked
QRS pricing which I'll be copying for custom cuts: 15 bucks per
custom cut roll, shipping is not included.

It's better to buy 4 rolls if possible as they make a nice square
and can be packaged and shipped for maybe 9 bucks at most, more
likely 8 (makes 2 dollars shipping per roll at max). I checked the
shipping cost from my house in Upstate New York to Sacramento,
California, which would probably be the longest stretch, or one
of the longest. Anyway, that's just for future reference.

Also I did a test cutting on the perforator. Since I don't yet
have paper I did a rather stupid waste-of-time move and I fed paper
towel into the machine instead. After dealing with five paper jams
and the paper getting sucked down onto the chad fan, I did a test
cut that I aborted a little way through because the gantry hit the
right hardstop.

Conclusion: If you want to cut organ rolls on paper towel, you
can probably do it if you can get the paper towels to feed. :-)
I don't know why anyone would want to do this but sure enough
it's possible and the best part: _no chad._ The paper burns away
completely leaving not a single piece of chad.

In any case, once I get the perforator's X axis calibrated and I do
some test cuts to make sure things are aligned and playable, then
I will get onto recutting a few rolls I had "orders" for from
a few people.

To those who want recuts of "Happy Days Are Here Again" played by
Phil Lynch, know that the roll will be just slightly shorter than
the original to make sure bridging isn't a problem (and to save
myself some paper).

Look out for my post of confirmation that I can indeed cut playable
rolls and then email me again with the specifics as to what rolls,
how many, etc.

Yes, I'm planning on going full force into the recutting industry;
this isn't a joke!

Piotr Barcz

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