Bonsaii 12 Sheet Cross Cut Shredder C266-A Split Packaging

Good quality item, easy to set up and use.

I have now had some use from the shredder and thought some comments might be appropriate.The claim is that it can deal with 12 sheets of 80gsm at a time, this may be possible if you are only going to do 12 sheets and you are idle but I would suggest that you spare the time and feed them as 2 sheets at a time.The shredding slows down consderably as you fill up the collection drawer and the pieces tend to gather in the centre for some reason and have to be cleared manually.The machine creates a lot of dust although this may only be because I was shredding documents that are 15 years old.The cut-out on moving the drawer works well,The machine copes easily with staples.I have shredded sufficient to fill eight recycling bags and there have been no problems (jams etc.).

The top of this shredder has to fit EXACTLY into a flimsy plastic 3-sides whose structural integrity has been weakened past the point of commonsense, presumably to save plastic. The pull-out bin may well provide sufficient stability to the whole once it is in place but I can only imagine this, since getting the top in place at all turned out to be impossible. It is SO fiddly, especially for one person alone. The plastic is too thin and flexible: you can try to get all four 'prongs' into the four holes in the top at the same time but you have to be strong to persevere because the top seems unusually heavy. If you are one person constructing it, no sooner do you get 2 or 3 of the prongs in the holes correctly positioned then another 1 or 2 have come out again OR only 1 of the 4 actually makes proper contact in its housing. Not onlyl that but the plastic bends all the time, making four constantly moving targets. You need at least four arms. There is presumably no electricity available to the machine unless all 4 prongs are precisely housed, as the safety mechanism will prevent it because it is not flush. I tried for 30 mins, following the manufacturer's instructions to the letter and it was clear from reading these that they expected lots of issues with it. I have no idea how well it functions as a shredder because after the 30mins of irritating fiddling around and being careful and patient, my arms ached so much from holding up the shredder casing that I had to give up. I am busy person and don't have time to waste like this so I sent it back for a refund. Pay a bit more and get something better designed and more strongly constructed.

I use mine for the home office. It's done everything I wanted it too. I like that the paper bin pulls out. I stick to the advice on continuous-run-duration times so not had any issues with over-heating. It is noisy, but aren't all paper shredders? Good value for the money.

The shredder works fine but the collection bin is not very well made. The clips that hold the shredder to the bin are weak and one was already broken before I got it out of the box. It is hard to line up and attach the bin to to the shredder and as the side clips are so weak, it will not be possible to detach it again without breaking it beyond use. A good enough shredder but let down by the cheap collection bin

It works well, thankyou.

This was easy to assemble though the casing felt a bit flimsy considering the weight of the mechanism. Unfortunately if you are shredding high quality paper you may need to cut right down on the sheet numbers. My shredder got in a fatal jam which I was unable to sort. I'm sure if one keeps the page numbers low on quality paper it will give good service but care needs to be taken. Quality paper contains a lot of fibre which could cause difficulties. The makers stress the need for lubricant, it would have made sense to include some with the printer.

Very good shredded can do a lot in one hour