Do you do anything special for blade disposal

[Notarealsignguy]

HUmmm, I may need to rethink that practice. I usually just crush my bottles and throw them in the bed of the truck so I dont think I'd mistake a blade... but who knows....ive done dumber things.

One of our customers had an employee that was stealing bleach from work for cleaning her house by putting it in a water bottle. Apparently she had it on her nightstand and woke up one night and grabbed it thinking it was her water. She ended up in the hospital and is lucky it didn't kill her. She is pretty wacky which didn't help matters but none of us are immune to a stupid accident.

Edited to add that she does not have Covid-19 either

 

[2B]

You throw them away? I just send my blade out for resharpening.

to make sure you are able to keep working, do you snap them off before sending them out to get sharpened

 

[CanuckSigns]

One of our customers had an employee that was stealing bleach from work for cleaning her house by putting it in a water bottle. Apparently she had it on her nightstand and woke up one night and grabbed it thinking it was her water. She ended up in the hospital and is lucky it didn't kill her. She is pretty wacky which didn't help matters but none of us are immune to a stupid accident.

Edited to add that she does not have Covid-19 either

Lol, that's a new one, bleach is like $0.99 a liter, if your going to steal a liquid from a sign shop go for eco sol ink!

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Lol, that's a new one, bleach is like $0.99 a liter, if your going to steal a liquid from a sign shop go for eco sol ink!

Shes the cleaning lady there and one donut short of a dozen

 

[ewded]

Lol, that's a new one, bleach is like $0.99 a liter, if your going to steal a liquid from a sign shop go for eco sol ink!

Eco sol ink? Last month I stole 10 isopropyl cleaning wipes just in case

 

[Andy D]

Last place I worked, I took an empty 1 gallon denatured alcohol can & cut an opening in the lid for
old blades.. when I left five years later, it was 80% full... Makes me wonder, how much money had to
be spent on Xacto blades to fill up that can 80%? $4,000 to $5,000???

 

[Andy D]

If nothing else, I will take some scrap tape or vinyl and wrap it around a blade several times before throwing it in the
trash.

 

[GAC05]

We save them in old tin cans and when full, drop them all over a competitors parking lot. Oh yeah, and be sure to remove all your fingerprints.

We also do this but in our own parking lot.
(we also repair tires)

 

[Andy D]

this is ours, its basic but it works, when full the lid goes on and it goes in the dumpster

Incase you were wondering, your handwriting says you're Barack Obama

https://www.findmyfont.com/index.ph...f47f3765ade9d77f&wrap=2&text=old Knife Blades

 

[CanuckSigns]

Incase you were wondering, your handwriting says you're Barack Obama

https://www.findmyfont.com/index.php/fonts/font-preview?fset=Insigne / (Commercial)&ffam=44thPresident - Regular&fstyle=i&fsize=60&fid=d428450cd0b86debf47f3765ade9d77f&wrap=2&text=old Knife Blades

Good to know, it's my father's writing, but I'll let him know. I thought it was the current president who signed things with a sharpie though?


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[Andy D]

Do you run all hand writing through find my font? I mean, it's an odd tic to have for certain, but there are more destructive one's I suppose?

Haha, no, it was just something to do while waiting on my printer.

 

[AMGearhart]

Any container will work. I have a plastic microwave soup can, comes with a lid that has a sip hole in it. Once full, duct tape it shut, and buy another Cambell's grab & go microwave soup.

 

[d fleming]

Have an old tootsie roll decorative can with hole cut in top. It's about 80% full, weighs about 8-10 lbs, lol. Twenty years worth of dead xacto blades in it. In the field I have an old xacto package marked with skull and crossbones to put them in in my toolbox.

 

[d fleming]

Just want to point out my kid has the same thing (it's a change jar), it never gets filled because she constantly empties it to buy junk, I'd hate for her to come across one full of blades, but I'm sure you keep it tucked away.

There are no children in my shop. Or employees for that matter any more. Just me and the wife plugging away at the daily work load of a sign/screen print shop and distillery. I just tossed a blade in it, that sucker is closer to twenty pounds than it is to ten;-)