Quick and dirty, "cheepo delux" way of binding papers and reports in your home or office.
Save resources by saving gas, electricity and materials that are necessary for binding books together.No power tools, no trips to the store, no exotic materials. Impress your friends and peers, relax your mind, contribute to the instructables way of life, by adding your own enhansements to your very own, 5 minute, completely in-office/house binding method.
I often have papers that I cannot bind together with staples, because there are too many pages and the stapler is retarded. We have a power stapler in the office that will staple 200 pages together, but I dont like the fact that you loose the ability to open the paper or report with the pages fully extended.
Also, I'm finishing my thesis soon and I want to bind it myself, since I've been infected with the instructables way. But for starters I thought I'd tidy up some of the papers I have lying around and practice so I can improve on my binding skills.
This is the quickest, cheapest binding method that gives surprisingly sturdy results. None of these quick bindings have ever come apart, and they dont seem to want to in the future either.
In the next step, I list the things you need to prepare >>
Save resources by saving gas, electricity and materials that are necessary for binding books together.No power tools, no trips to the store, no exotic materials. Impress your friends and peers, relax your mind, contribute to the instructables way of life, by adding your own enhansements to your very own, 5 minute, completely in-office/house binding method.
I often have papers that I cannot bind together with staples, because there are too many pages and the stapler is retarded. We have a power stapler in the office that will staple 200 pages together, but I dont like the fact that you loose the ability to open the paper or report with the pages fully extended.
Also, I'm finishing my thesis soon and I want to bind it myself, since I've been infected with the instructables way. But for starters I thought I'd tidy up some of the papers I have lying around and practice so I can improve on my binding skills.
This is the quickest, cheapest binding method that gives surprisingly sturdy results. None of these quick bindings have ever come apart, and they dont seem to want to in the future either.
In the next step, I list the things you need to prepare >>
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Things you will need:
1. Duct Tape. I like the silver kind with the threads. There is a black variety that would look cool too. Whatever you have around will do fine.
2. Elmer's Multi-purpose, or Wood Glue. Both these worked the same. The wood glue looked a bit yellow, that might help you achieve a vintage effect, if you care about that. The all-purpose was just fine for all my attempts.
3. Scisors and/or X-acto-Knife. Something that you can cut paper and duct tape with.
4. Lever paper clip things. I have no idea what they're called. Check the image. I use them to hold the book together while the glue is drying.
5. Ruler. Because they rule!
6. Some Thicker paper, if you want to make covers.
7. 5 minutes of your time.
Sorry about the nasty pictures - only had my phone camera available.
Next we get into a bind :) >>
1. Duct Tape. I like the silver kind with the threads. There is a black variety that would look cool too. Whatever you have around will do fine.
2. Elmer's Multi-purpose, or Wood Glue. Both these worked the same. The wood glue looked a bit yellow, that might help you achieve a vintage effect, if you care about that. The all-purpose was just fine for all my attempts.
3. Scisors and/or X-acto-Knife. Something that you can cut paper and duct tape with.
4. Lever paper clip things. I have no idea what they're called. Check the image. I use them to hold the book together while the glue is drying.
5. Ruler. Because they rule!
6. Some Thicker paper, if you want to make covers.
7. 5 minutes of your time.
Sorry about the nasty pictures - only had my phone camera available.
Next we get into a bind :) >>
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Actually thought about it after I had about 7-8 large documents bound and started having a hard time telling them apart. Grabbed xacto knife from edge of table. Problem solved!
Try them! I'm interested in the results. . .
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1) Okay, you're a Math Guy, and they told us in back Engineering School that Math People are generally so involved in Deeply Conceptual Thought that they can't be expected to know things like the difference between efficiency and effectiveness, but I guess I'm just feeling grumpy tonight...
...Say that a direct descendant of King Cnut gets his hands on the most efficient water pump ever to exist in the universe, and takes it down to the beach at low tide. He gets the pump going and sets it to pumping water back out to sea. This is very efficient: he's getting a remarkably high water flow rate per unit of energy expended; but it is not at all effective: the tide is still coming in.
...Elsewhere, a direct descendant of Guy Fawkes lights a cigarette in a Non-Smoking Area. The authorites respond by turning on the building's fire sprinkler system, thoroughly dousing the cigarette, Fawkes's hapless progeny, and everyone and everything nearby. This is very effective: the cigarette is well and thoroughly out; but it is not at all efficient: there are ways to fully extinguish a cigarette that take considerably less effort & expense.
B) "...Optimize everything around you, every single action or utility..."
Um, that seems like kind of a tall order to me. In order to do that - or even to be capable of doing that - one would have to be Frank and/or Lillian Gilbreth, the world's best programmed robot/automaton, or a Bodhisattva.
III) Maybe it's just me, but the image above doesn't look so much like the result of inefficient science (US EPA standards relating to toxic materials, for instance, demonstrate that sort of thing very nicely) as that of a sudden suspension of the laws of gravity and friction during a stage production of Pink Floyd's rock opera "The Wall."
Hmm... "Do Not Deliberately Concentrate and Inhale" may be good advice even if there's no glue in sight. :) :) :)
Congratulation On Finishing Your Thesis!!!
I did a Master's Thesis once (way back in the era when people still thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea), and have watched any number of friends and colleagues struggle with Doctoral Theses to the point where they would happily have changed places with Sisyphus. So, Congrats! Have a (virtual) pint on me! :)
I guess the idea of wanting to optimize everything in sight made me think "Math Guy." That, and as a Mechanical Engineer, I tend to think of Physics as involving things tangible enough that they could be dropped on one's foot, possibly with unpleasant consequences for said foot.
Glad you "like the way my mind works" - not everyone is, er, entirely prepared to appreciate it. :) It's nice to find someone to whom I can put something as technical as effectiveness vs. efficiency in terms of something as culturally abstruse (on this side of the pond, anyway) as King Cnut vs. the incoming tide. It'd be fun to be friends.
This site is great, although I'm finding it very addictive both to read and to dream up potential/planned/draft Instructables to write for. (I currently have 6 'ibles in the germ-of-an-idea stage and six in draft. I've published two, but neither one is going to knock anybody's socks off.) I've had to take an early retirement due to some rather troublesome health problems (nothing life-threatening, just boringly bothersome), and this gives me a chance to stretch my engineering/technical brain muscles.