Fellowes 32197 Powershred SB-97Cs Shredder

by Fellowes

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 22 x 29.5 x 14.8 inches ; 45.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 48 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000H6991S
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: SB-97Cs
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (192 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com

The innovative Fellowes SB-97Cs with patent-pending SafeSense technology features an active sensor that stops shredding immediately when paper entry is touched. Designed for frequent shredding needs, the Fellowes Powershred SB-97Cs delivers a high level of performance that's ideal for small office or home office use. This heavy duty personal shredder reduces documents to 5/32" x 1-1/2" extra-security confetti particles, and shreds up to 17 sheets per pass, 50-100 times per day, for a total daily capacity as high as 1,700 sheets.

Equipped with a 9" wide paper entry, the SB-97Cs easily accepts standard letter or legal size documents. The SB-97Cs shreds CDs in a designated safety slot. Durable steel cutters also accept credit cards, staples and small paper clips. An auto start-stop feature ensures quick and easy automatic shredder operation. The shredder automatically shuts off and alerts the operator when a jam occurs, door is ajar or wastebasket is full. This model includes a fully enclosed 10-gallon pull-out wastebasket, and the cabinet stand has built-in casters for portable ease. Fellowes provides a seven-year warranty on the cutter.

What's in the Box:
Wastebasket, casters, machine with power cord, user's guide, warranty card

Product Description

The New innovative Fellowes SB-97Cs with Patent-Pending Safe Sense Technology features an active sensor that stops shredding immediately when paper entry is touched. Designed for light duty shredding in the home or home office, the Fellowes Powershred SB-97CsCs reduces documents to 5/32" x 1-1/2" higher security confetti particles, and shreds up to 17 sheets per pass, 50-100 times per day, for a total daily capacity as high as 1500 sheets. Equipped with a 9" wide front paper entry, the SB-97Cs easily accepts standard letter or legal size documents. The durable steel cutters also accept credit, staples and small paper clips, also shreds CD's in a designated slot safely. Quiet operaption is perfect for use in office cubicles. Electronic auto start/stop features ensures quick & easy automatic shredder operation. Heavy duty, quiet motor allows extended shredding cycle for less down time. Shredder automatically shuts off and alerts operator when a jam occurs, door is ajar or 10-gallon pull-out wastebasket is full. Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams. Cabinet-style stand includes casters for portable ease.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Huge improvement over my previous shredder, May 12, 2007

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Carson Lattimore (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This unit does a great job! My old shredder was very slow and I had to open all junk mail because my old shredder would jam when I tried to feed in whole letters with envelopes, especially if they contained plastic cards such as credit cards. This new unit has no problems with such things. Shredding my junk mail with this unit takes far less time than with the old unit!

The only impovement I would like to see is to make the slot slightly wider so all mail can be fed in sideways. Right now a lot of my junk mail is about 1/2 inch too long and must be fed in lenghtwise. If the slot had been 1/2 inch wider I would have given this product five stars rather than four.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Workhorse, March 19, 2007

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Dan Huse (Woodbury, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This shredder is well worth the money. It is fast, powerful, and convenient to use. The only minor drawback is the challenge in changing the bag without having to vacuum out the shredded paper pieces in the slide-out wastebasket compartment. My wife and I just use the dustbuster, since the problem is nearly unavoidable. Even so, we are both very happy with this shredder.

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Shredder for the price, February 27, 2007

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H. Hartley "LA Tech Guy" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This shredder is built rock solid and will shred anything. I have been through a few shredders before buying this one and thought I would take the plunge and get a larger shredder. Easily shreds documents, cards, cds - great to keep you personal info - well personal. It will easily shred thicker paper and a small stack of documents with ease. I recently shredded a large pile of old documents no longer needed and the unit did not overheat.

Keep in mind - this is a big shredder - but functions very well and is easy to maintain and clean the shredding mechanism when needed. Also looks cool.