Reply #9: Meant to mention to you, if you get a shredder, they do heat up

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and burn out or the cutting wheels jam. I never knew that you were supposed to use oil or oil impregnated sheets every so often in a shredder. Ours has really bent out of shape middle 3 cutters because it got hot and jammed the paper, causing the wheels to bend. Now I have to manually dig out the jammed paper. A new one isn't in the budget now so I use this as it is. I know it will give up one of these days.

There were no instructions with this machine when we bought it that mentioned oiling. It is a Sentinel model and does a great job...at least it did.

I now know that you can get the oil papers at Staples or buy a fine oil and draw a fairly heavy line across a sheet of paper and feed it through. This is from the clerk at Staples.