▶▶▶ Royal Machines SP60MC Shredder 6-Sheet Micro Cut 3 x 9 mm with Handle - NO CD

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Royal Machines SP60MC Shredder 6-Sheet Micro Cut 3 x 9 mm with Handle - NO CD

Royal Machines SP60MC Shredder 6-Sheet Micro Cut 3 x 9 mm with Handle - NO CD Review

This shredder is probably the most reliable micro cut shredder for the price. -That being said there are some problems with it:
1.) Shredding constantly (6 pages at once) overheats the machine and causes it to run slower, which will eventually jam the shredder, causing the reverse function to fail, so you have to wait ~ 5-8min. for it to start working again, so you can un-jam the shredder.
2.) Some parts of the machine are made kind of cheap and probably could've been designed better... (talking about the waste basket that drops small shredded pieces through to the bottom of the shredder. The design for removal and insertion of the shred bin could've been designed better....
3.) When shredding pages occasionally (about every 1 in 25 pages) almost 98.5% of the page is micro cut and the other 1.5% is long pieces in the bin which missed the micro cut I think these are pieces which are feed from the sides of the machine, which could be a security issue... (an important factor for me)
4.) I wish that the shredder could shred 12 pages instead of 6, because many of times I am in a rush and it is a hassle to separate 6 pages each time you shred.

I would definitely say that this is a light-medium duty shredder, great for the average person shredding some paper every once in a while but this is definitely not for the heavy user who shreds more than 6 pages at once or the person that will fill up the shred bin more than 2x in 1 hour. I am pleased with my purchase though and if you can over look the things I mentioned above, this might just be the shredder for you.

For those of you considering a different brand of shredder after reading my review I highly recommend Fellow's Shredders, for reliability and longevity- but don't be expecting a low price tag.