Fellowes LX65 Cross Cut Paper Shredder, Shreds 10 Sheets into 4x40mm Particles, Manual Operation, for Home or Office - Black

Have used the Fellowes make for a few years and always find them to be reliable. My old one packed in so bought this one. Its a lot quicker and quieter than the previous one. Only down side is having to lift the top of the waste basket each time to empty it as the last one just pulled out. All in all a great machine though.

I bought this new Fellowes shredder to replace my previous very old (more than 10 years) Fellowes shredder. Whilst it seems to do the job, quality of design and construction seem to have taken a big backwards step. 1. It's much noisier than the old one, even after using the approved oil (never used oil on the old one) 2. The basket has some quite sharp protuberances where the opaque(!) window is attached. As you can't see into the basket anyway, this window could have been omitted. 3. My old Fellowes had a handle to enable lifting the heavy shredder head off to empty the bin. This new one doesn't have this and is quite slippery to manage. The side recesses don't have proper grips for holding it. Emptying can be a messy job. 4. The entry slot for shredding has no real guide to enable an angled feed. However, it's still a good shredder and does the job well, even when fed multiple sheets, so I think four stars are about right., knocking one off for backward steps in design/construction. Time will tell if it lasts as long as its predecessor.

I bought this as a replacement for another Fellowes cross-cut shredder which must have been about 15 years old when it failed. I am hoping the same for this model. It's an even better design than my previous one and the lid is much easier to lift off with the inset handle at either end. Very impressed with the capacity too. I wouldn't put 10 sheets at a time through it though as it would burn the motor out more quickly. I'd say 3-4 sheets maximum of a normal 80 gsm thickness paper is what it sounds happy shredding before it sounds too laboured. Perfect for my daily use though.

Like that it does cope with staples - (last shredder i had - these had to be removed and was a slow process). Not too noisy, and decnet speed and shred. Only gripe is the shreds pile up in centre of bin and frequent compacting doen, or emptying is needed.

Destruction of personal papers

Works about as well as any other shredder I’ve had over the past 30 years. (All the others eventually got destroyed by people at home, progressively feeding more and more sheets into the slot, until something broke.) Like all the others, this one still overheats after some minutes of operation - why on earth they can’t put a simple extraction fan in there, I don’t know. Also, some kind of LED bar graph of how close you’re getting to tripping the thermal switch would be handy. That way, you could throttle your usage to keep it going indefinitely. All you get is a single red LED that effectively says “I’ve already overheated- go do something else for half and hour.”

Seems to good a good job at shredding, but it is new, only time will tell if it stays this way. I am using the oil as recommended.

Excellent . Thank you.

Can't use at the moment as has US power cord and no adaptor. I have to now but and wait for adaptor. Unfortunately I didn't think I needed to check as buying from Amazon Australia!