Royal 29140x Px100mx Crosscut Shredder
|  | $43.21Availability: Out of Stock
Condition: NewSKU: 29140X
UPC: 022447291407
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| Product Description- Shreds 7 sheets in a single pass
- Accepts credit cards & staples
- Shreds CDs-destroying all data
- .156" x 1.625" crosscut shreds
- Auto start/stop
- White gloss finish
- Vertical-feed, space-saving design
- Open throat safety guard
- 9" paper entry slot
- 4.22-gallon wastebasket
- 1-year parts warranty
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-01-20  
Piece of garbage...mine broke
I really liked this shredder when I first bought it from circuit city. It worked well and smoothly enough, and I had no problems shredding documents, CDs and credit cards (credit cards worked fine in the regular paper slot, so I didn't have that problem like one other reviewer). Also, it had a pretty slick design, and looked really good anywhere in the room.
The first problem was the internal design, where paper pulp would accumulate in the middle of the shred head due to a support bar on the inside. Cleaning this out would cause paper dust and flakes to go all over the place, which would then get vacuumed up (a minor inconvenience).
Then, at some point, the auto sensor went. It would get activated by the first sheet of paper, but then never turn off. Really annoying, but still workable.
Today, the thing just broke, under normal use. This only after ~6 months of mild to moderate use (household junk mail, credit card statements, etc.). The two rotating rods are held in place by plastic brackets! Now, it still shreds on one side, while the other lets paper through. Now the whole thing must get discarded!
My advice, forget aesthetics and buy a fellowes. |  | Reviewed on 2007-11-25
Not worth it
Lasted through approximately five weeks of shredding my daily junk mail before the motor burned out. Granted I get a lot of junk mail, but I expected more from a name brand. | | Reviewed on 2007-10-15
rather good but not great
Royal makes one of the better cross cut paper shredders in this price category. I have used this paper shredder for about one year now and overall I have been satisfied.
It shreds lots of things rather well--many less expensive models simply cannot shred credit cards, CDs and DVDs. This one can. One reviewer says that a shredded CD makes a mess in the wastepaper can directly below the shredder; but I have not found this to be the case. This shredder by Royal can really do the job; although they do recommend that you limit the total number of credit cards, CDs and the like to no more than five per day. This is a minor disappointment; but again for the price it's still pretty good.
One thing that does disappoint me is how the shredder wastepaper basket seems to fill up rather quickly. I suppose that the shredded piece of paper leave room between them and air takes up the space between the shreds of paper. I guess that would be the case with any shredder. Oh, well. Sigh.
One more caution: if you plan on shredding the phone book in one sitting, forget it. This machine will overheat and automatically turn itself off when it senses that it's in danger of overheating. I recently got rid of several years' worth of tax returns and it took me two days to do it because I had to keep on giving the machine time to cool down before I could continue to shred more paper. Of course, I should have shredded many documents sooner than I did so I myself am partly to blame for that problem.
Overall, for routine everyday use this really is a fine shredder. You'll have to be patient with it when you have large amounts of things to shred; but again in this price category you won't get much better.
Three and one-half stars.
| | Reviewed on 2007-10-04
Fair shredder for the money.
We bought this shredder for a small office and were mostly pleased with its ability to shred. There is a support bar through the center of the blades that catches shredded paper and needs to be cleaned out every so often. Then one day, it would not shred. I took if apart and cleaned every iota of shredded paper out of the mechanism, but it still would not function. I tried to use the shredder about 2 weeks later and it worked. It seem that one must physically press the container in when setting the cutting mechanism on the top. If you don't manually press it in, the safety switch is not satisfied and it won't run. Emptying this unit is a bit difficult as the paper shreds respond to static electric and inevitably, a few end up on the carpet around the unit. | | Reviewed on 2007-06-14
Don't buy - Other Companines make better shredders
What a piece of junk. First, there is a bar in the middle of the slot where you feed the paper in which blocks the opening even when attempting to put in one piece of paper. Second, for some reason whenever I go near the shredder with my Bluetooth headset for my cell phone the shredder just starts running. Third, there is a special slot for credit cards that only slices them instead of shredding it which would allow anyone to easily put it back together and read the information. And don't try to put it where the paper goes to shred it properly because it jams up. Finally, there is a small window on the shredder basket that supposed to let you know when it's full. Unfortunately the paper piles up in the back of the basket long before it's full and starts jamming the shredder. Sadly it took me a little more than 30 days to discover all of these problems so Circuit City won't give me a refund. All in all I've had much better performance out of paper shredders that cost a lot less. | |
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