Royal 16- Reviews
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Below are 5 randomly chosen reviews of Royal 16-.
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Rating: 5 (excellent) 
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2008-04-22
Summary: Great |
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Good shredder, Shreds cd, credit cards and envelops unopen with no problem. Large basket to shred a lot of paper.
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Rating: 5 (excellent)
Nickname: majutsu_wind |
Date: 2006-02-15
Summary: Best shredder I've ever owned |
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I owned 4 shredders previous to this one, mostly around $60. Two were Fellowes and two were more generic brands. My last Fellowes said it could do 8 sheets, but that wasn't really true. The most that I've been able to run through it was 5, maybe barely 6, sheets but every time it sounded like the motor was choking on that load. This has been my basic experience with all my shredders regarding the advertised amount of sheets they could eat at once. Anyway, after several months, the basket got overfilled a few times by accident and the motor got clogged and would take only like 3 sheets anymore. (When a basket overfills, the motors starts eating already cross-cut sheets from the bottom and clogs itself).
I finally decided to get a new shredder when the fellowes couldn't accept some back_up CDs/DVDs with some sensitive information on them. It ate about 1/4 of the first disc and decided it was full. I'm really impressed with the Royal I bought myself for Christmas, it's the first one of it's brand I had. It was an indulgent purchase, being pretty much double the amount I ever spent on a shredder. Previously, I only bought the best of whatever Walmart/Target offered, being "8 sheet", $60 models of various brands..
Things I like about it:
1. The advertising is true for once. The motor is feels and weighs much heavier than the other models. I count up 15-16 sheets and it just eats them no problem. This is the only shredder where I felt I could actually put more in without it choking but I don't, don't want to void warranty:) I actually never had to make it go in reverse for the 7 weeks I used it to spit things back out.
2. I can pull out the basket. On a lot of other models, I'd have to take off the motor on top of the basket and from the bottom of the motor, little crosscut strips would spill everywhere - making me sweep:( Here, I pull out the basket and carry the contents where I need them - cleanly. (BTW, because of all the air inbetween, crosscut strips burn very well, in case you need to make a fire in the fire place.)
3. The basket is big! At least twice as large as I'm accustomed to, I have to empty it a lot less.
4. It has an automatic sensor telling you when the basket is full - overfilling a basket ruined or severely degrade the future performance of some of my previous shredders.
5. Along with the automatic sensors, it has an LCD panel telling you exactly what, if any, problems occur. If it's overheated, full, etcetera - it will tell you what's wrong so you don't have to fiddle with the thing guessing what's wrong.
6. It accepts cds/dvds/credit cards no problem. I chased about 30-some back_up cds through it without it even burping or temporarily overheating, which is common with other, cheaper, shredders when it has to eat a decent stack of paper.
7. This is the first shredder I've had on wheels. Maybe it's because I only had cheapo shredders before, I don't know. But moving it around is much easier.
8. Even though the motor is heavy, the rest of the boy doesn't feel skimpy - it's doesn't feel topheavy where it would spill. On the other shredders I've owned, the motor was really heavy and the basket would be like a thin and light metal cage. They were so topheavy, sometimes they'd spill over because of a little nudged - making a mess.
9. 16 sheets! I know I said this before. But I can't overstate the convenience. On my old machines that claimed 5-8 sheets, to shred a 200-paper stack, I would sit there feeding the machine 3-5 sheets a time. It would take me a better part of half-an-hour or more (with dumping the waste basket at least once). This shredder could do that in less than 5-7 minutes and probably hold all that in it's basket.
Before Christmas, I looked at all the shredders out there and this was the only one under $200 with the features and the power. Some other companies offer 12-sheet shredders at %50 more! It's really a steal for the price. If you are thinking of getting a cheaper one, don't. Like I've said, I've had 4 other shredders around $60, whatever model I could buy local. None of them really did the job well, but ended up costing me (collectively) twice as much as this one did.
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Rating: 5 (excellent)
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2009-06-07
Summary: Finally, the third times the charm! |
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This is the third (fourth if you count the shredder I bought for my Mother also) shredder I have purchased. I "burned" through the first two in short time and finally decided to pay a little more and get my money's worth this time. I had a backlog of shredding to do and this shredder handled it with ease. The shredding capacity (16 sheets) made quick work of my pile even though I was only shredding about 5-8 sheets at a time because some of the paper was heavier than "normal". The bin capacity is the best thing. Both in size and ease of emptying. I realize that it isn't professional strength, but after the "toys" I had previously, I can definitely recommend it for home or even a small office support use.
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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: anonymous |
Date: 2006-01-20
Summary: Great shredder |
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I got sick and tired of my old worn out shredder doing a better job of perforating paper than shredding so I stepped up to the plate and bought this "office duty" shredder for home use. My box also arrived beat all to hell, but the product inside certainly looked new and in perfect condition to me! I plugged it in and started shredding away. 16 sheets at once is a lot! It hasn't failed me yet! I keep looking into the bin to make sure it is shredding away, and so far, so good! I also heed the warning on not abusing it for more than 10 minutes at a time. I am also careful to not send staples or paperclips on through. You can shred an awful lot of paper in that amount of time at 16 sheets a shred. I rarely do 16 sheets at once, but it does the job for me. I got to shred up just one credit card so far. It has a convenient little slot on top to stick the credit cards and CDs into. So far I haven't shredded a CD. But for the price this one is great! I saw one at Costco that cost $40 more and didn't shred 16 sheets at once. It is much more quiet than the relic, too. It has a nice safety feature of the shredder not working if the bin is removed. I do hear the blades jangling a little in there when it shreds; it sounds menacing, but that is why it works so well! If you are tired of fooling around with your old shredder, get this one, it will do the job for you!
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