Did you ever hear of this?

[Patty]

Yesterday I bought a new shredder... it's not too big, says medium weight on the box. Fellowes is the brand. I was reading the instructions...it says to oil with vegetable oil. did you ever hear of that?

[jazzypurple853]

Nope never had!

[Paula Carden]

Interesting! You would think WD40 or something.

[RubberLady603]

Nope. I guess I didn't read the directions with mine. I didn't know I was supposed to oil it. Ooops.....

[jazzypurple853]

Here's a chuckle for you. One time when I got a new shredder, I accidently shredded the directions to the machine. I was too busy shredding my papers, that I didn't notice I had the instructions to the machine in with my papers I was shredding!

[Patty]

That's funny, Shelley....but I can see how it would happen. This one says to oil it (just on the top part where you insert the paper) each time you empty the shred basket.

[maxiesmom]

Huh, that's odd, we have a Fellowes at work and we had to get a bottle of special oil for it. Granted it's probably going to last forever and ours is definitely heavy duty. It was 300 some odd dollars but then we shred a lot!

[Patty]

Oh, wow...mine was "only" fifty bucks, but I'm tired of buying the cheaper, smaller ones and then having to replace them so often. I would have used either wd40 or sewing machine oil, but it specified vegetable oil. Hope Mazola is ok, cuz that's what I used! Says it's guaranteed for 1 year, so this time I'm keeping that paperwork!

[maxiesmom]

Like I said it's in our office and we shred a LOT! And it can shred about 15 pages at a time, cds, credit cards. I think we have gotten our money's worth out of it. Funny, it will do a cd but it doesn't like xrays.

[cindi]

nope..i have not heard that. I don't think i have ever oiled my shredder.