Save that manual

[Peter A Markavage]

The plastic spine bindings come in sizes up to 2 inches. The 2 inch ones
will hold up to 425 sheets. Be careful of the Heath foldout sheets. Some
of them fold close to the "bind" edge. Trim to much, without unfolding
the folds, and you screw up the foldouts. Also you have to trim enough to
clear the glue on the edges, which sometimes overlaps on to individual
sheets. If you don't, the plastic spines will bind on the glue surface
with the potential of ripping the sheet.
Pete
www.manualman.com

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:28:50 -0700 Rinkie & Ron Pollack
<rinkies at ADELPHIA.NET> writes:
> I don't know if everyone does this, and I'm just slow, but thought I
> would
> contribute this:
>
> While rehabilitating my old SB401 the manual binding came apart in
> several
> pieces, making it hard to use.  I took it, and a few others coming
> apart,
> down to my wife's office, where they have a neat little machine that
> binds
> sheets together with those plastic spines, which come in a variety
> of sizes
> up to about 150 sheets in capacity.  The manuals not only now stay
> together,
> but lay flat while in use.  It was only necessary to trim about a
> sixteenth
> of an inch off the glued binding on some of the manuals.  Some
> smaller ones
> are stapled, so it's only necessary to pull the staples and cut the
> sheets
> down the middle.
>
> If your wife (or husband) doesn't have one of these gadgets, Office
> Depot
> and I think Kinko's will do it for you quite inexpensively.
>
> Ron K2RP
>

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