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    Did you ever hear of this?

    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?

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    Re: Did you ever hear of this?

    Nope never had!
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    Re: Did you ever hear of this?

    Interesting! You would think WD40 or something.

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

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    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!

    Kathy

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    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!

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    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.

    Kathy

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    Re: Did you ever hear of this?

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

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