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We recommend purchasing the most heavy duty paper shredder
affordable that also fits in the allocated space.
Paper shredders have teeth, small blades and many moving parts.
The small parts that shred your documents tear through an assortment of difficult tough media.
In the process it is easy for parts to break and little bits of shredded material to lodge in crevices.
The stronger and more heavily constructed the shredder the longer it will last and the longer that it will provide the same uniform cuts it did the first day it was purchased.
Some heavy duty paper shredders may have motors that run in reverse. We love this feature since all shredders will jam if enough paper is put in them. When the motor runs in reverse it's easy to clear the jam and then restart with a smaller amount of paper. It's true that some of the paper will be slightly shredded, but it seems to be no problem dividing the stack and refeeding on all the paper shredders we've used. By not it should be clear that paper shredders, even heavy duty ones, can easily break. This is one piece of equipment where an extended warrantee often pays off. It's not as important to get and extended warranted for heavy duty shredders as for lighter weight ones, but it is still a good idea. Our first DealCloset shredder was frankly the least expensive one we could find. We figured most of our documents are electronic and that we only rarely need to shred. We were wrong in so many ways. Here's the timeline of our inexpensive paper shredder purchase: Learn from our cautionary tale, skip the cheap shredders and go to the heavy duty ones. They're also much nicer to use since they chew easily through documents. |
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