Don't put just any plastic in your laminator. (Experiment)
It's one of those d o as I say and not as I do stories and it goes like this. Basically some months ago I found a laminator at the dumpster. First thing I did when I took it home was to plug it in to see if it works. At the time it didn't work and when pressing the power button would only turn on for a split second. At that point I didn't go any further into troubleshooting the laminator because I didn't have any time and just like that it sat forgotten in the basement for many months. A few days ago I had the need to whip up some PCB's quickly and I remembered that I have a laminator which I could use to make the PCB's. So I dug the laminator out from the pile of stuff it sat in and plugged it in to confirm that it still doesn't work. And of course it didn't. So I pulled it apart to check if there's anything obvious inside and there wasn't so I thought what would hapen if I held the power switch pressed in. So I held the power switch i