AmazonBasics 6-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper and Credit Card Home Office Shredder
June 27, 2019 - Comment
An Amazon Brand. Product Features Cross-cut paper shredder with 6-sheet capacity; destroys credit cards (one at a time) Shreded paper measures 7/32 by 1-27/32 inches 2 minute continuous run time with 30 minute cool down time; Auto start and manual reverse to clear paper jams 8.7-inch-wide paper feed; 3.8-gallon bin; thermal protection with auto shut-off
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Bigger than it looks, AND more powerful! Over the years I’ve used a full-size shredder, a micro-shredder, and now this guy. So far, this is the best one.For starters, if you want a continuous-usage shredder you’re not going to find it here. If you need to shred for hours and hours spent the cash for a commercial-strength full-size shredder. If, on the other hand, you’re occasionally shredding a contract or credit card statement, this will do the trick nicely.I put this shredder through it’s paces immediately upon receiving it, because I bought it to shred a large stack of papers I needed to shred to free up some space (tax returns, credit card statements, etc). The device is POWERFUL for it’s size. It’s blades are small but mighty. Seriously, you can hear this thing rev up like a little jet engine ready to gobble paper up. You CAN overload it with continuous 6-sheet shreds (it’s a bad idea to shred a lot of multi-paper jobs at the max thickness a shredder is rated for), but if you let it breath a…
like pieces of bread around a jelly sandwich Last it lasted 6 years! And this one cost $4 less!A few pointers…1. Don’t try to shove envelopes full of paper into this thing.- It’s not a high-end device, but it will do the job.-Go ahead and open each envelope an feed the pages one or two at a time (seriously, you can take a few seconds to do this). 🙂 it will keep the motor alive slot longer.2. The weight of the motor and cutting blades makes it a little top heavy, so find a stable place to put it (like between a chair and a cabinet) to keep it from spilling over.3. Feed your shredder an ‘oil sandwich’ once a month: take two pieces of paper, zig-zag a pattern of some light cooking oil (not motor or olive oil, please) on one of the pages, then slap the other page on top of it; like pieces of bread around a jelly sandwich… then feed it to your shredder.- Putting the oil between sheets of paper contains the oil and limits the amount smeared on the mouth of the…
Seems like a good, cheap, basic shredder. I want to preface this review by saying that I purchased the AmazonBasics 12-Sheet High Security Micro-Cut Paper/CD/Credit Card Shredder with Pullout Basket, and that thing is absolutely wonderful. I am spoiled with that thing by comparison, but I needed a small shredder for a second location where I don’t need to shred a bunch of documents. That led to this purchase.This is a smaller shredder with a smaller capacity waste bucket that the shredder mounts on top of. you can use a plastic bag inside to catch all the waste. It is a standard crosscut that cuts thin short strips, but not as fine as the micro-cut. It was able to cut 6 pages of 20lb paper without any problem, but it slows a little to do so- no big deal. It seems like it has good power and might be able to do more in a single pass, but I don’t want to chance this- that is what the bigger shredder is for.My impression is that this small shredder will fit the intended purpose for light duty use- a couple…