r/MachineRescue

I’m in France with an old 1960s guillotine paper cutter. I’m trying to keep her around but the electromagnet has been giving issues.

Today the cylinder that holds two copper rings totally broke off, making the electromagnet clutch inoperable. I’m trying to get a handle on vocabulary and the machine simultaneously to see if I can fix both. If anyone’s liable to want to help out.

Third photo is the piece that broke off. Fourth photo is the piece it broke off from. Second photo are the spring-loaded retractable rods that make contact with the copper rings as they spin. Today it heated up which must have caused the issue but I’m not sure how or why. It also seems like the two pieces may have been merely glued together…the break is extremely clean.