[Closed] Alright so lets say you want to cut the spines off 5 years of MBUK, WMB and MBR

Bandsaw, in lieu of a lightsaber?

AXE or Knife - which is most STW these days ?

Tried melting the glue of the spines on your wood burner?

Workmate to clamp a fair few attack with a saw.

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Paper Guillotine

Det cord or thermite

Mattock?

Or cutting mat, safety steel rule, scalpel + lots of blades.

What if I told you, that there is this machine that scans documents into electronic format? 😛

What if I told you, that there is this machine that scans documents into electronic format?

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Scannable by Evernote is a great app on iOS for scanning pages using your iPhone of iPad and you can scan in the core Evernote app on Android. Scannable itself does great auto cropping if you use a contrast background and integrates nicely with mail - so sending it to your PC is easy.

Tom_W1987 - Member

What if I told you, that there is this machine that scans documents into electronic format?

But then I'd need to print them all out again.

Weirdly, I do not own a bandsaw. And they're too big for the evolution compound saw I could borrow. Will a conventional saw work on paper? (or, for that matter, a conventional jigsaw maybe?)

If you sandwich them between some sacrificial wood and clamp them a jigsaw or normal saw would work I reckon.

To decide is the saw will work ask yourself this question

which is harder the material you cut with saw or the magazine?

A hacksaw or jigsaw and clamped or unclamped will work fine

Your nearest jobbing printer and a six pack of beer.

Clamp so spine is close to jaws of a workmate and then use a plane to slowly remove a few layers until all the glue has gone

Straight edge...say metal ruler and a stanley knife with nice new sharp blade. Just keep running the knife down the edge into the paper. It'll do quite a few pages at a time.

A very expensive katana. Travel to japan for +10years to train with some sort of magazine chopping master. Come home to chop off your magazine spines in one confident well mastered blow, miss and swear. Get out a Stanley knife and just slice out the pages you want using the adjacent folded over pages as a guide.

Junkyard - lazarus

To decide is the saw will work ask yourself this question

which is harder the material you cut with saw or the magazine?

Well, there's more to it than that, question is how good is the cut.

Electric plane? Hmmmm.

Smatkins is probably right though?

If you're near Chester I can put them through the guillotine for you.

Make a papier mâché Santa Claus. Could be festive.

I was thinking clamp and hand plane. Take you a while, but no longer than a saw, and it'd be tidier.

Sellotape lots at a time, spine down, all around the sills of your car.
Driving around day to day will naturally grind away the spine of the magazines on the road.

Offer lifts to larger friends to increase the depth of the grind, until the glued portion has gone.

Realise you are never going to follow a five year old ride guide and just chuck them?!

Or a quicker way than scanning would be to set up as basic jig and take a photo if the guides you want?

Lend your mags too a mate who then breaks the spine of said good condition mags and returns them looking like a well thumbed wallet with the pages hanging out .

If you only want the ride guides, you'll have to leaf through the massive stack of loose sheets anyway, except it'll be trickier, because they;re all loose, and what are you going to do with all the loose sheets you don't want? Chuck them? they'd be easier to handle if they're bound in magazines. Loads of time taking the spines off for a small stack of ride guides and loads of annoying loose paper.

Just flick through, slice out the pages you want and chuck the mag to one side.

You know it's the best way, don't you? 🙂

a 6 ft high pile of magazines! 😯

bloody hell, I pull out maps that I might use after it gets too dull for even toilet reading!

Just think how the dull winter evenings will fly by as you flick through each magazine individually, determining which maps to keep, and then, tongue poking out like a naked mole rat testing the air for the onset of spring, carefully cutting out each one....

Then you've got to decide how to file them....by country, by county, by distance...you troubles aren't over

You dont need to , just rip apart the spine in front of the page you want, then it just falls out.

In MBR they're all on perforated pull out sections anyway.

Just so you don't go losing six hours of your life peeling spines off...

If you just want the ride guides then this:

Just flick through, slice out the pages you want and chuck the mag to one side.

Is almost certainly the best way. Maybe not manly enough though?

Weirdly, I do not own a bandsaw

That is weird. What do you have in the gap between your table saw and your lathe!

Oddball.

nealglover - Member

That is weird. What do you have in the gap between your table saw and your lathe!

A 6 foot tall pile of bike magazines! But once I get rid of those I can finally get that bandsaw.

Good plan.

i had a similar issue with my now long departed bike magazine collection...i had every copy of MBUK from 1996 - 2010, every copy of MBR up to 2010, every copy of Singletrack up to 2010, about 10 years worth of WMB, Dirt and a few other titles.
sat down one evening and decided to take all the sections i wanted out using a stanley knife...took me a few hours though!!
then the magazines ended up in the recycling bin as we had no space for them in the new house...with the back seats down my mtb/music/car magazine collection filled the back of a nissan almera...to the point where the arches were about 2cm off the tyres
was a sad day indeed!!