Royal SC120 Crosscut Shredder – Long term report and review

One of the first things I did when I moved to Florida was buy a new crosscut shredder for my home office.  I had burned out the one I owned in California shredding documents prior to my move.  I’ve been using this one for about 10 years.

I’m pretty sure I bought it from Sam’s Club and I still see similar models listed for sale on line.  It’s a basic 12 sheets at a time crosscut shredder that also can shred credit cards and CDs.  I’ve only used mine for paper and credit cards.

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I shred documents for privacy reasons, and there are some documents that go into the shredder pretty quickly after I receive them.  Other documents are kept for a while and then shredded.  This is the issue I had in California where trying to shred many years worth of documents that I no longer needed ended up burning out my entry level shredder.

Funny story is that after I moved out of my apartment there, I had 1 more night before moving to Florida, which I spent in a hotel room.  I had stacks of documents that still needed shredding and when I got to my room at the Residence Inn, was pleased to see that it had a fire place.  I ended up burning a lot of documents in the fireplace to keep from having to move them.

So my advice is that Royal is a good brand and this is a good model to buy if you don’t try and shred stacks of documents non-stop.  That’s what burned my Fellows brand shredder out in California.  Here’s a link to a search on Amazon that shows a variety of models for sale.

One last thing to note is that I have a credit card that is made of metal, and when it expires, the issuing bank sends a return envelope for you to use if you want them to handle the disposal.  It would mess up a shredder like this if you attempted to use it.