Customer Reviews

Fellowes PS60-2 Strip-Cut Shredder (38601)

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If you're expecting an industrial shredder, you'll be disappointed. This shredder is designed for personal/small office use and does a great job of it. It claims that it can handle up to 12 sheets of regular sized paper at once and it's about right on.

I bought it for home use and don't expect to put it to too much use, but we had saved up a bit of paperwork that we wanted shredded so for the first day or two I really put it through its paces shredding probably close to a thousand sheets of paper.

When you read the directions carefully it claims that you shouldn't do more than 20 to 25 minutes of shredding with the shredder daily. And if you do more than about 10 minutes of continuous shredding the shredder overheats. It doesn't damage the shredder when you do this (though I'm sure it isn't really good for it either), but it has an automatic sensor that will turn it off until it cools down to a usable temperature.

I probably did close to one hour of shredding the first and second days and it ran like a champ. I was a bit hesitant to run some stapled pages through at first but after I tried it the first time and it ate them up like post-it notes I wasn't too worried about it anymore. It didn't have any problems, even though I overheated it a couple of times.

It also recommends that you oil the shredder about once a month. With how much I used it I oiled it a couple of times. Interestingly it says in the instructions that you can use vegetable oil or canola oil to oil the shredder instead of shredder oil. It's probably not as good, but it will save you money. I used it and it worked fine.

The only problem I can really see with the shredder is that it is a bit loud. Never having owned another shredder I can't really compare it to other shredders, but it seemed pretty loud to me.

Overall, I love the shredder. It can't do unlimited sheets at once, but if you're using it for limited daily usage it should work great indefinitely. If you're looking for something along these lines (10 minutes of use a day, roughly), then I highly recommend this shredder.

I owned a shredder before this and it was a cross cut shredder, and when I bought this one, I guess I didn't pay attention to the fact that it wasn't a crosscut shredder. I like the cross cut because the paper is shredded to the point where nothing can be recognized. Needless to say, this does a good job, you just have to make sure that you put the documents in horizontally.

I have a Fellowes PS-60 powershredder at work, and it works great. I bought this PS60-2 Shredder and have had it at home for six months or so. I don't know why my experience has been so utterly different than the five others who have reported in, the only thing I can think of is that there is a manufacturing defect in mine...in any case, when shredding typical bills and other office paper items, the paper frequently wads up in a wide space just beyond the shears that then narrows to form the outlet into the bin below. Once the wadding process starts, you keep merrily shredding, the wads get tighter and tighter in that space, until the shredder jams. You turn it off, turn over the shredder module, and then take about 15-20 mins to fish out all the wads so it will work again. With trial and error, you can reduce the wadding by placing only perfectly straight paper into the machine, and also by frequently tamping down the shredded paper. The problem is Fellowes dumb design of this one...I am going to call them to try to get it replaced, but thought I would warn others first.

Based on the previous Amazon reviews, I bought one of these new through eBay for about $60.
In a situation similar to a previous reviewer, I put my shredder through heavy use for several days with a large pile of accumulated papers, and can confirm the assessment that "it worked like a champ." In addition to paper, my shredding included several hundred cardboard VHS covers, numerous small magazines with staples, and a few credit cards. I don't find it at all noisy, and is somewhat quieter than some of the machines I've dealt with in an office.
The closest thing to a negative I can find is that the basket fills up very quickly -- a slight issue, since any jamming I've experienced is usually from an over-loaded basket of shreds not allowing new sheets to freely feed from the machine.
I would encourage anyone looking for a moderate-use shredder and no pressing need for anything more secure than strips to consider this machine. I'm not certain I would pay much over $60-75 for it, but if you find it at that price (and at this date, that's not difficult), you will find it virtually flawless, and decidedly an excellent value.

This fantastic shredder will shred almost everything. Everything about it is good. It does it quickly, it can fit everywhere, and it even shred's some thick materials such as cardboard. The only thing about this that is bad is that as soon as it senses the paper, it quickly sucks it up, giving you a short time to release the paper. Otherwise it is great.

for security of shredded documents, don't waste your money with the strip cuts shredders. Get a cross cut. This shredder handles 7 sheets in one pass, staples and all, with no problem. it comes with a waste basket. ... if you order it at ... a place that will give you a 110% price guarantee, AND a warranty, then it's a steal.
Get the shredder oil too, this will keep it running at peak efficiency. Paper has dust; this gets into the motor and dulls the blades over time.
Get a warranty if you are doing a lot of shredding, like 30 sheets per day, to protect your investment for an additional 1-2 yrs.
This shredder shreds paper into tiny unreadable pieces of confetti; if you have sensitive documents to shred, then this is the shredder you want.
for the product features, it is the most cost effective model on the market, along with the cross cut PS70C-2, which is a little more..but also worth it.
The strip cut shredders, and the unknown name brand shredders aren't worth a fifth of what they cost, their warranty is poor, their brand reputation is non-existent.
FEllowes has been around for a long time, and has been making affordable, quality home user products for many yrs.
Thus far i have owned this model for a month, have shredded like 1,000 documents, and it still runs like when i took it out of the box...

I've had this shredder for about four years. I use it in a small office and shred a couple times a week. Overall, it has been robust and I have gotten my money out of it but the design of the outfeed (into the basket) causes it to jam frequently. It only takes 30 seconds to clear the jam but it is messy and annoying. I would look for a shredder that feeds directly to the basket instead of having a 2" channel to feed down.

We got this as the new office shredder. It is much quieter than our old shredder. My 1st shot at using it I fed in what looked like appx 12 sheets of paper - not perfectly straight. They kinda went sideways and I experienced exactly what the previous poster claimed as far as the paper bunching up within the shredder. This is a common defect of this shredder. For this price, try another.

This thing is the absolutley the worst - it is now in the trash -- never even came close to achieving the performance advertised -- jammed continually -- would not shut off -- JUNK!

When I received my paper shredder PS60-2 I thought it was the same one that is pictured next to their description. How wrong I was. If I knew it wasn't the same as the picture I would not have gotten it. Buyer beware. They show you one thing and sneak a second one in. Amazon isn't what I thought it was