Royal 16- Reviews
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Below are 5 randomly chosen reviews of Royal 16-.
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Rating: 4 (good) 
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2009-07-03
Summary: as promised |
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it's probably a little bit of overkill for my use, but there's no credit card solicitation I can't put right in and walk away without worries about jams, etc.
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Rating: 5 (excellent) 
Nickname: chicagorosi |
Date: 2008-11-13
Summary: I absolutely love this shredder! |
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I used it as soon as I opened up the package it came in. The shredder is very simple to use. It shreds a lot of pages at once. The most I have tried was 11 pages and it shredded them perfectly. Pages seem to be so tiny when they are shredded that it's impossible for someone to piece them together. The cd's and credit cards I fed through turned to dust practically! This is my favorite product of the year!
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Rating: 5 (excellent)
Nickname: remodeling-guy |
Date: 2006-01-30
Summary: Great value in a competent home office shredder |
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Our old shredder cut paper in strips 1/4" wide, the length of the paper. Although far better than not shredding, a very patient individual could reconstruct readable documents from these strips. This shredder cuts paper into 3/16" x 1" pieces, plus the ends are angled and ragged. This makes it highly unlikely that anyone would even attempt to reassemble a cross-cut document, much less one document from among hundreds of pages of co-mingled confetti. So, if you're serious about shredding, buy a cross-shredder device. In addition to paper, this thing utterly destroys CDs and credit cards - as the pieces are 3/16" wide, but even shorter than 1".
The shredder is shipped in the factory box, with large Kapox protectors at each end, with the device itself wrapped in plastic, for more protection. Our unit arrived unscathed. It comes fully assembled. Plug it in and go. The instruction "manual" is very thin, but this device isn't complicated. Remove any glue after peeling off the label, with paint thinner - quick, and zero damage.
This shredder has only three buttons. On/off, forward, and reverse. The on-off button's green LED illuminates when it's on; this means the device is ready to be fed paper. The motor starts when it senses something in the input slot. The forward and reverse buttons are only necessary when it overloads (i.e., paper stops feeding).
Our home-office has hardwood floors, and rolling the Royal about on its four casters is a cinch. Each caster can be locked, if you want the unit to stay put. The all matte-black plastic construction is attractive. It stops working when the integral bin is full. It's simple to empty - pull the bin out with the handle and dump/recycle the chopped-up remains. The bin has to be fully inserted to resume shredding.
From an electrical point of view, this shredder doesn't even register 1 watt (on a Kill-A-Watt meter), while in "ready" status, and draws variable wattage when in use, depending on the load. E.g., one sheet of paper draws about 35 watts and a full load (chopping up a CD) draws 273 watts. Since it uses almost no measurable electricity at idle, it would seem that the principle reason to turn the device off is if small children are in the house. On that note, the feed slots are designed so little fingers can't (shouldn't?) fit - however, you never know what a kid might do.
We're very satisfied with the 160MX for our home office, but don't confuse Royal's sales-pitch of "office ready" as meaning it's OK for any office (e.g., a small business). That may not be the case because of sheet-capacity, the 10-minute-maximum run-time, and/or it's plastic (although solid) construction. Instructions say to let the motor cool for 30 minutes after 10 minutes of use at maximum capacity; however, the motor doesn't get as hot when shedding only a few sheets at a time.
As of this writing, Amazon sells shredders from $15 to commercial-grade shredders up to $5,984. That makes this device clearly aimed at the lower end of that scale - the home-owner. Royal says it takes up to16 sheets of 20 lb. bond paper at a time. We use 24 lb. Kodak bond paper exclusively, and this shredder will only comfortably take about 10 sheets of that weight paper at a time. More than that and it just stops, requiring use of the reverse button or pulling the partially shredded paper out, then re-feeding less thickness. Because of this, it's easier to just stay below the maximum when feeding it.
The LCD display is blank when off, or says "ready auto", "forward", "reverse", "bin full", "overload", or "overheat". Technically, this machine doesn't "jam", so there's no indicator for that - instead, if you exceed its capacity to pull in material and shred it, an "overload" results and the motor stops. The instructions do no mention periodic maintenance as being required.
The 5-star rating is because this an excellent choice for a home-office, and based on the competition in this price range, an excellent value. I.e., we couldn't find another model with comparable features for near this price.
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Rating: 5 (excellent)
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2009-09-08
Summary: Heavy Shredding |
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We burned up two light office shredders before we bought this one. Great heavy duty shredder. Used it to shred estate papers where absolutely nothing was thrown out. It's cycle time was very good for about 8-10 pieces of paper and kept up continuously as we reviewed and inserted those papers needing shredding.
When the large basket was full we slid it out, easily emptied it from the trash bag inside basket to the trash without leaving shreds (strips) all over, then took a break and re-inserted the basket with trash bag and inserted/shredded a page sprayed with vegetable (PAM) oil. It shredded about 10 two foot storage boxes of papers without any delays from overheating. This went on over various periods for several months without ever stopping or signs of wear.
It is larger than the the typical light office shredders from box stores, but has rollers making it easy to move to work area. More expensive than light office shredder, but great value for personal heavy duty shredding.
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Rating: 5 (excellent)
Nickname: clevelandbill |
Date: 2009-05-01
Summary: WHY CAN'T THEY ALL BE THIS GOOD?? |
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I bought this shredder from Amazon, getting the best price at that time. I am typing this review as I am set to order a second of the same shredder. THIS THING ROCKS. It is not the quietest, strongest, or most secure shredder known to man, but for pretty good security at a good price without excessive noise, this is great! I have not yet had a jam, and I've tried to feed bigger and bigger stacks of paper through it. It chomps credit cards, CD-Roms, junk mail envelopes with fake credit cards UNOPENED (yeah, it will shred the whole thing, which is a couple sheets of paper, an envelope, a fake plastic card). Some reviewer who gave it a 1-star rating talked about beeping--it beeps when the bucket is full. Perhaps he has a jam at the place where the sensor for bucket fullness is placed. The bucket is huge, the construction is good, with no little breakable protrusions. It has wheels to move it. It is stable even when full. Unless you are going to spend a significantly greater amount of money you will not be sorry to own this shredder.
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