Taking it apart led me to a basic design flaw: the gear on the motor shaft is metal but the gear on the shredder side is plastic

: I found a third design flaw that I forgot to mention about

There's a design flaw that lets the too-heavy shredder fall into its own trash can, disabling the shredder

Other than that one design flaw, it does the job well.

Those are two design flaws that I can think of with this unit

It has one fatal design flaw however

I think this one has a serious design flaw.

I forgot to pay attention to look at how long I should use before break... so after ~ 15 minutes of continuous shredding, my shredder went straight to the e-waste stack right after

Its quiet, thats a big change.

Once it cools down I am thinking it

I noticed it stop taking the paper as fast as it once did, so I took it apart.

Works as I expected.

My replacement showed up a week later and it's died as