Dahle 20390 Level P-2 Strip Cut High Capacity Paper Shredder
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Product Description
Product Details
- Chain driven providing slip free power
- Fully Automatic Operation
- Shred Size: 1/4" Strip Cut - Security P-2 (Old Level 2)
- Feed Width: 16"
- Capacity (#20 / #16 Paper ): 55 Sheet Capacity
- Speed: 22 ft/min
- Motor: 2 1/2 Hp 115V
- Waste Bin: 50 Gal
- Waste Bag: 706
- Shred Box: 739
- Weight: 323 lbs
- Dimensions: 46 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 24"
- Manufacturer's Warranty: Lifetime Manufacturer's Warranty on Cutting Cylinders, 2 Year on Parts, and Labor
Item Specifications
- Actual Machine Dimensions (L x W x H): 24.5" x 27.5" x 46.75"
- Actual Machine Weight: 337 lb
- Shipping Length: 33.5"
- Shipping Length: 35.5"
- Shipping Height: 35.5"
- Shipping (Web) Weight: 530 lb
Demonstration Video
Simply turning it on will put in in standby mode, once you insert up to 55 sheets of paper the sensor will activate the motor, shred the pages, and stop the motor.
For more serious shredding add the tray to place your pages onto. Push the forward button for the motor to continuously shred until you stop it.
Itās not going to automatically stop on you or overheat because itās chain driven.
Put a tray on the back as well for even more continuous shredding.
Because of the sheet capacit ... Read More
Are you looking for a big shredding machine? The Dahle 20390 is a very high capacity paper shredder.
Simply turning it on will put in in standby mode, once you insert up to 55 sheets of paper the sensor will activate the motor, shred the pages, and stop the motor.
For more serious shredding add the tray to place your pages onto. Push the forward button for the motor to continuously shred until you stop it.
Itās not going to automatically stop on you or overheat because itās chain driven.
Put a tray on the back as well for even more continuous shredding.
Because of the sheet capacity itās hard to jam this shredder, but if you do you can reverse and save your pages from getting shredded.
It shreds through staples and paper clips like they werenāt even there.
It cuts your pages into thin strips, thereby making the information unreadable.
This security level is the lowest level offered, but itās also why it shreds so quickly.
Apply the CD tray for, yet again, more continuous shredding. Lots and lots of unreadable data.
All the trimmings fall into a cardboard box which you can easily take out and recycle the bag of trimmings.
There are rollers at the bottom to help remove the box from inside.
It shreds virtually any paper too, having a 16ā width accommodating larger applications.
There is even an option for an automatic oiler, so you never have to worry about it.
Otherwise you can pour the oil into the machine like so, or periodically oil some pages and shred them to keep your machine running smoothly.
This method also helps keep the visible parts of your machine cleaner.
Resources
Staff Review
Dahle 20390 High Capacity Shredder Review
The Dahle 20390 is a high capacity shredder designed for use in the busiest offices and mail rooms, and anywhere else that large volumes of documents need to be destroyed on a regular basis. In the following review, we take a close look at this machine and present you with a list of what we consider to be its strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths:
- The 20390 comes promised as a high capacity shredder, and it certainly is that. This machine can shred an astounding 60 sheets of paper at one time, and an equally impressive 28,000 sheets a day, thanks to the high volume, continuous use 2 Ā½ HP motor. There are few, if any, machines on the market with that kind of capability.
- The 20390 features a nice wide 16" feed opening. This will get you through not only the vast majority of shred jobs (letter and legal size sheets), but can reasonably accommodate any if not all irregular sized documents as well, including computer printouts that contain sensitive data.
- The operation of the 20390 is fully automatic, and gives you three options for mode of operation: auto on/off, continuous run, and reverse. The control panel is easy to use, and it is always easy to tell what mode the machine is in at any given time.
- This machine includes some nice safety features. If the door to the shred bin is opened, for instance, the machine will shut off automatically. Also, there is an auto reverse function in the unlikely event there is an over feed.
- This appears to us to be an extraordinarily well-built machine, and should provide you with years of service. The cutting heads are made of high-quality German steel and are guaranteed for the life of the machine. This is a fairly large machine, but the footprint isn't unreasonably high, and it should fit nicely into a larger business' mail room or wherever you take your shredding material. We also really appreciated that the 20390 comes on wheels, so you can move it around if need be. Pretty handy for a machine that weighs in at a hefty 400 lbs.
Weaknesses:
- The one glaring weakness of the 20390 is that it is a mere quarter-inch strip cut shredder, and thus does not offer you what could be considered a terribly high level of security. It would be best suited for shredding sensitive (as opposed to confidential or secret) documents. This is, however, the same level of security that is offered by many outside shredding services, and you can do just as well, and save a great deal of money over a relatively short period of time, by doing your own in house shredding with a machine like the 20390.
- Though the footprint, as we said, is pretty reasonable for such a high capacity machine, you will need to make sure that you have the room to keep the 20390 in a dedicated location. Though, as previously mentioned, it does come with wheels, you will not want to be put in the position of having to move this machine around too often, if you can help it. You will also want to make sure that you have the appropriate electrical power installed before this machine arrives.
- You may want to consider placing this shredder in its own room or in an industrial location. This is an industrial shredder and as such is not going to be as quiet as most of the Dahle office series shredders. You will need to keep that in mind before placing a shredder like this in the middle of your quiet office environment.
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Compare to Similar Shredders
Model Name | 20390 | 20392 | 20396 | 20394 | 20452 | 20453 | |
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Model | |||||||
Feed Width |
16" | 16" | 16" | 16" | 17" | 17" | |
Capacity #20 / #16 |
55 / 60 | 25 / 30 | 38 / 43 | Up to 18 | 85 / 100 | 65 / 85 | |
Security Level |
P-2 | P-5 | P-4 | P-7 | P-2 | P-3 | |
Shred Type |
Strip-Cut | Micro-Cut | Cross-Cut | Cross-Cut | Strip-Cut | Cross-Cut | |
Shred Size |
1/4" | 1/13" x 9/16" | 1/8" x 1 9/16" | 1mm x 4.7mm | 1/4" | 1/8" x 3 1/8" | |
Waste Volume |
50 gal | 50 gal | 50 gal | 50 gal | 50 gal | 50 gal | |
Speed feet/min |
22 f/m | 22 f/m | 22 f/m | 35 f/m | 41 f/m | 42 f/m | |
Decibel Level |
60 dB | 60 dB | 64 dB | 56 dB | 67 dB | 67 dB | |
Dimensions | 46 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 24" | 46 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 24" | 46 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 24" | 46 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 24" | 63 5/8" x 28 3/4" x 29 3/4" | 63 5/8" x 28 3/4" x 29 3/4" | |
Weight | 323 lbs | 328 lbs | 328 lbs | 228 lbs | 717 lbs | 717 lbs | |
Special Features | |||||||
Staples | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
CDs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Smart- Power |
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Clean TECĀ® |
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Safe tech |
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ESP | |||||||
Auto Oiler |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
Oil Free |