I can't recall ever having had the thought, "Gee. I sure do wish I had a pair of electric scissors." Electric scissors are not something that I've ever felt the need of. But that hasn't stopped some outfit from manufacturing them.[1]
There's no maker's name on it. It takes two 'C' cells in its battery compartment.
And it's inoperative; pushing the switch button results in nothing. Oxidized electrical connections are the likeliest fault.
Here's a view of the business end's insides.
A little DC motor with a cam at the end of its shaft lends a rocking action to one of the blades, and that provides the scissoring effect.
Some attention paid to electrical continuity got the motor going. Here's a brief video of the mechanism in action.
['Sorry about the very poor video. I could have used some help with shooting that, but there was none available.]
The swing of the moving scissor blade is tiny. Only a very small part of the scissors' blade length is actually utilized. But it does cut paper remarkably well. Here it is in action.
I'm kind of impressed.
The battery compartment cover wants attention; one of its retaining clips is broken and the cover pops open easily.
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And here we are with a fastening for the wayward battery compartment cover.
That's a 4-40 x 3/16" screw with an oversize No. 4 flat fibre washer holding the front edge of the cover in place. That will work fine.
I'll keep the tool handy and see if it makes itself useful.
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Note:
[1] And never mind just 'some outfit'. There are all kinds of the things available, and they're not cheap. Visit Amazon and search for "electric scissors" and you'll see what I mean.
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