VERTICAL CROSSCUT SHREDDR
Overprized junk
As an engineer I recognized that the construction and design of this shredder was poor, the instant I took it out of the box. But I figured it was just adequate for cutting paper. I was mistaken. Within a year it broke. The reason is that structurally its flimsy, the blades will spread open with the force that the blades use to cut the paper. So the geniuses at Royal figure they could fix this with a metal brace that will connect both blades and keep them from coming apart. Well the brace is on the middle of the blades, and the paper will get caught in it until shut down. After this one has to physically pry this paper out, this can be dangerous. As a designer myself I see how this fix would make sense, since the paper should have been shred at that point. The problem is that they had to extract a few blades to place the bracket and this caused the paper to brake in wide strips. These strips will get caught on the brace. It does say 7 pages maximum, but this happens even one page at a time. So keep your money, buy something different.