Paper shredder suggestions?

[Richard]

My shredder at work died. Darn thing has PLASTIC gears driving the two shredders

Looking for new one, PREFER one without plastic drive train. Under $500, crosscut/confetti type, more pages per shred the better.

Anyone know of some that do NOT have plastic gears?

 

[randy41]

see the thread on cat declaw but don't.

 

[EddieWalker]

Hey Richard,

Sorry about your shredder, but I don't know the good ones from the bad. Mine is just a cheapy from Costco that's done well for me over the years. Sometimes it's almost better to just consider these things disposable and buy low end. When it dies, just toss it out and get another.

I see that you want one that cross cuts, which is really good. When I was with the State Department in the Marines, they had some classes on destroying documents. Burning is the best, but those paper shredders that cut the paper into lots of long lines are the worse. People actually put them back together again!!!! No security there at all.

We didn't have any paper shredders in the Embassies. All the papers that were to be destroyed went into burn bags, and at the end of the day, they were put into an incinerator (sp). It was one of those duties I enjoyed. hahaha

Eddie

 

[GaryM]

Found this link Personal Deskside Paper Shredders from following a link on the bottom of the page. You might see what you want there.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

My shredder at work died. Darn thing has PLASTIC gears driving the two shredders

Looking for new one, PREFER one without plastic drive train. Under $500, crosscut/confetti type, more pages per shred the better.

Anyone know of some that do NOT have plastic gears?

I can't help but laugh when I hear any mention of a paper shredder. A good friend of mine got married about 3 years ago. He was always the consumate bachelor. He was always extremely "frugal". (I call him CHEAP) And he NEVER had much use for the "bimbo" types. Well, you guessed it. He married a stripper. (Lifetime supply of one dollar bills....?)

Anyway, Rick is a real estate agent. He generates quite a bit of paper. His new bride decided he needed to get rid of some of his dead files. She went out and bought a $750 shredder. That almost tested the waters on how strong the marraige was. But Rick relented and let her start sredding paper. We went fishing one warm saturday. When we got back, there was this mountain of shredded paper on Ricks deck. He asked his lovely bride what she intended to do with all the confetti. "Why, I'll burn it", she replied.

So much for that $750.....

 

[Jagmandave]

Is your a Fellows brand? Cause I've had several of those here at work and the plastic gears failed on all of them. IIRC they have a replacement kit for those with metal gears, you should go onto their site and get the Customer service number (or it might be on the nameplate on the shredder) and call them.

The reason these gears fail are because no one uses the reverse feature to clear the head periodically, and no one ever lubes the cutters. You're supposed to put a few drops of 3in1 on the cutters from time to time, says so right in the manual - but no one ever reads the manual do they...

 

[Richard]

Ironically, I DO oil the cutters every now & then. hanging out at places like this get me more enlightened on how to do something right/better

Never thought of a replacement kit. Oh, I run mine backwards every now & then too. Probably (seems) every other time I use it as it's always getting clogged up.

It's PROBABLY a bit undersized for what I need when I'm moving paper through it.

I don't use it on a daily basis very much, just here & then. Every now & then though when I get a small stack of monthly statements or a BIG stack of quarterly statements in... THAT is when it earns its keep.

Thanks for idea, I'll try to find out about a fix it kit. Be a lot cheaper than new one given it otherwise works fine..

hmm.. I think I just remembered I tossed out most of the screws when I saw the broken gear, rather than reassemble it

guess it'll be interesting to see what parts I still have when I get there tomorrow.

 

[Richard]

Oh, and yes, I belive it is a Fellows brand

 

[Bird]

I don't remember the brand, but my first paper shredder was the cheapest thing I could find; didn't originally buy it for security, but for shredding my newspapers when I finished reading them, then using that for rabbit nesting material. It just did the long strips, not a cross cut. And I never oiled it, so it finally died after 5 or 6 years, and now for nearly 2 years, I've been using a $40 Fellows crosscut model from Wal*Mart. And I periodically use Office Depot's genuine "shredder lubricant" on it.

 

[PineRidge]

If you want a good one I recommend Fellows Powershredders.

We use ours 6 days a week hard to shred paper that is used to package lots of product that is shipped via UPS.

The gears are all steel and the cutters are replaceable. This thing is built like a tank. It also starts automatically when you insert the paper into the chute.

I found it where else but at eBay.