Product Description

The New innovative Fellowes SB-87Cs 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-87Cs reduces documents to 5/32" x 1-1/2" higher security confetti particles, and shreds up to 15 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-87Cs 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 7-gallon pull-out wastebasket is full or shredder is overheated. Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams. Door offers convenient holder for oil, manual and shredder bags. Cabinet-style stand includes casters for portable ease.

Product Details

• Brand: Fellowes
• Model: SB-87Cs
• Released on: 2006-10-01
• Dimensions: 16.50" h x 11.00" w x 23.50" l, 43.75 pounds

Features

• SafeSense sensor stops shredding the instant paper is touched
• Can process CDs, paperclips, credit cards and staples
• Shreds up to 15 sheets per pass, at a rate of 10 feet per minute
• 9" paper entry width; 7-gallon basket with casters included
• Creates confetti shreds; includes seven-year warranty on cutter

Amazon.com
The innovative Fellowes SB-87Cs 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-87Cs delivers a high level of performance that's ideal for small business or home office use. This heavy duty personal shredder reduces documents to 5/32" x 1-1/2" higher-security confetti particles, and shreds up to 15 sheets per pass, 50-100 times per day, for a total daily capacity as high as 1,500 sheets.

Equipped with a 9" wide front feed paper entry, the SB-87Cs easily accepts standard letter or legal size documents. The SB-87Cs shreds CDs in a designated safety slot and the durable steel cutters also accept credit cards, staples and small paper clips. Electronic auto start/stop ensures quick & easy automatic shredder operation. The shredder automatically shuts off and alerts the operator when a jam occurs, door is ajar or the seven-gallon pull-out wastebasket is full. A sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams, while the door offers a convenient holder for oil, manual and shredder bags. The cabinet-style stand includes casters for portable ease. Fellowes includes a seven-year warranty on the cutter.

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

Customer Reviews

Almost perfect
This shredder does an excellent job of making confetti out of documents, as well as credit cards and CD/DVDs. The only issue is the spred of the confetti within the cabinet. The shredding heads are not on the middle of the basket, but rather toward the front. Some (small portion)of the confetti spreads over the basket edge, and into the interior compartment. It's a small aggravation on an otherwise excellent unit. keep a small hand-vac handy. It has run hard, and has never tripped the thermal breaker -- definitely NOT light duty.

Knowing what I know, I'd buy it again.

Some issues with this shredder
I purchased this shredder to handle the mounds of paperwork that I had saved after my parents death. This is my experience with this shredder:
1. It overheats if you shred lots of paper at one sitting and you have to wait for it to cool down. Sometime over half an hour.
2. The auto paper sensor gets "dirty" and keeps the motor running. It will not stop running unless you turn the power off. This happens too often. Since you have to oil the cutters, I believe the oil collects gunk on the sensor. I guess it is optical. I keep having to clean it with a Q tip.
3. It makes a big mess as bits of paper fall out of the cabinet when you empty the basket. Keep a broom or vacuum handy when you open the door and remove the basket.
4. The shredded credit cards and CDs go into the basket. Since we recycle paper in my city, I have to empty the basket of paper first and then dump the shredded CDs in the garbage as they can not be recycled.

Overall it is a powerful shredder that does the job. Just as long as you don't have to shred lots of paper. I didn't expect the shredder to have an overheating problem. The older shredder style with the shredder that sits on top of the basket is a much better design that does not make a mess and is much cheaper.

Good shredder for CD's, etc
Seems to me that all shredders below $1k (that is, shredders marketed for home use) are noisy and messy and tend to overheat if used for long periods. This one is better than the two others I have owned. Still, running it near its maximum shredding capacity for more than a few minutes will cause it to overheat whereupon it takes a seat on the bench for 20 or so minutes, then comes back to the fray ready to do battle again. And it's still impossible to empty the bin without making a mess on the floor, so it lives in the garage where it's easy to sweep up. This particular model does a much better job shredding CD's than any other shredder I've owned and the safety shut off if little (or big) fingers get too close is important to me. Amazon is certainly the place to buy one of these.... very good price and prompt delivery.