Fellowes Powershred P 45C Shredder 3240004
Fellowes Powershred P 45C Shredder 3240004
Designed for the moderate duty needs of home or home office, the Fellowes? Powershred? P-45C shreds up to 6 sheets per pass into 5/32 x 2? cross-cut particles as fast as 65 sheets per minute. Patented safety lock prevents accidental shredder operation. Equipped with a 9″ paper entry that easily accepts letter or legal size documents, the P-45C also features durable steel cutters that accept credit cards and staples. Pivoting head with handle allows quick, easy waste removal from 3.7-gallon wastebasket. Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams, while the reverse function easily removes over-fed paper. Auto start/stop ensures quick, easy shredder operation.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star This is piece of junk and expensive
I used this shredder for about a year and now it is broke (the inside plastic guide disintegrated). None of the advertised specs are accurate. It will not shred more than 2 psc of paper. It jams often & it is noisy. During this period I cut approximately 1000 pages, and paid for the shredder $60. This results in a cost of 6 cents per page!! This is the worst product, relative to it spec, I ever bought!!
1 Star Buyer beware
I paid top dollar for this shredder at Office Depot. It jammed after the first three sheets of paper. I went back to the store, and I was told I had to add cutting oil while it was working. I stood over the top of this machine pouring oil onto the cutters to get the junk mail shredded for one day. It would not even cut one page of newspaper. I continued to stuff newspaper in it until the top bulged and the room filled with smoke. Now it is in the trash, which is where I should have put the first time it jammed up. I will never buy another Fellowes product.
1 Star Not this one….
Have had this model for about 1 year. It struggles to take more than 1 piece of paper and jams constantly. Buying a Fellowes P-67C, reviews rate it much better across a number of sellers.
2 Stars Poor design
This shredder consists of a shredder unit which sits on top of a plastic bin. The shredded paper tends to fall in a heaped pile, meaning that when the shredder is approximately half full, shredded paper touches the rotating cutters, and wind back into the mechanism. If you empty the bin after shredding 20 sheets or so, it seems to work more reliably. This is a fuss.
To empty the shredder, the top is lifted from the bin. It usually deposits pieces of paper on the floor.
The shredder will strain to shred six sheets, and if the sheets happen to fold while feeding, it will jam. One or two sheets will normally shred OK.
The shredder has several levels of safety features – turning it on requires flipping two switches on top, and the bin must be in place underneath – if you lift the shredder while it’s on, it will stop. However, because the shredder jams so frequently, you may find that you will have to pull chunks of paper from between the rotating cutters, which doesn’t seem a safe design.
2 Stars Mediocre product… poor quality.
I had this shredder for a little over a year, with occasional use (some bills, papers with SSN, etc). It was OK, with many safety features. It shredded fine for a while but it started making clicking noises and getting stuck (needed to reverse in order to ‘set it loose’. Its supposed to do 6-8 sheets at a time but it had trouble with 3. Eventually it stopped working and after opening it up, I saw that many of the plastic components inside had cracked and fell into the shredding blades. I would not recommend this model!
