Large Paper Shredder

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Shred unwanted or confidential correspondence – and expired credit cards – to keep your personal details secure.

* 340 watts
* Basket volume: approx. 21 litres
* Cutting width: approx. 23cm
* Shreds up to 7 sheets of A4 paper at a time
* Cross cut action
* Automatic paper detection
* Automatic On/Off function
* Reverse function
* Overheat protection
* Finish: Black and Silver

Here at Aldi - Does anyone know whether this is any good?

 

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One of the most important pieces of info is missing there - the size of the cut pieces. If you are buying a shredder for security reasons you want the pieces to be as small as possible.

I suspect that the absence of this info, coupled with the price means that the pieces are not that small.

Harry.

 

We have something similar at work and the pieces measure about 0.5 cm by about 0.7cm.

 

And I suspect cost a tad more than £18!

Harry.

 

What you reckon about for bills and crap? would that be good enough - i thinks its down to personal preference is the answer.

 

Mate

Not sure about the width of the cut pieces - I think anything around 5mm is good. Since you're only using it to prevent ID theft, not for industrial shredding, the number of sheets you can shred at a time and all the rest of the gumph on the page don't mean much.

That said, its pretty reasonable price - see if you can find out what the cut width is before you buy - mine cost 20 quid from Staples and cuts to 5mm

 

My first *IT* job was for a security company who's shredders had to meet the criteria and the pieces were very small.

Si

 

anything between the range of .5cm > .7cm should be ok then...

 

The width is only half of it - what is the length of the piece? Some of the very cheap shredders have pieces over an inch long which is enough for a name or CC number if you are unlucky.

Harry.

 

hmmm, interesting - i'll search around the net to see if i can get some more info on this, if not, i try and get in early, buy it, post the details here, and return if its not that good...

Cheers

 

Mine cost about 50 quid and cross shreds the paper so the pieces are absoloutley tiny
about 5mmx5mm on the larger bits
as its a home piece tho it can only do a few pages at a time or it gets stuck
a pain when you take to shredding absolutley everything

 

Well if you have a fireplace at home why not chuck the stuff in there, i reckon its better than any shredder going plus its so great in the winter

Eddie

 

shouldn't you be asleep?

 

It's amazing how many houses don't have fireplaces any more....

Harry.

 

the leaflet has the same info as the website... hmmm, the checkout girls have no idea either...

 

I found there best way to check out info on a paper shredder was at document-shredders.info. They have all the info you would need to make your shredder purchase a good one!

 

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If it can't stand up to 300 CD's shredding one after the other, then I ain't interested.

 

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