MBM DSH0360L 2604 strip-cut 3/16" (4 mm)

The Destroyit 2604 strip-cut is the highest-throughput machine in this group: 27 to 30 sheets per pass, a 1 HP motor running at 28 ft/min, and a 26-gallon bin behind a 36-inch cabinet. It is a centralised office shredder in the proper sense — something a floor walks to, not something that sits by a desk. At DIN 66399 P-2 it is built for volume, not for secrecy.

Volume changes the arithmetic of shredding. A machine that takes ten sheets a pass and one that takes thirty do not differ by three times in practice; they differ by however long the operator is willing to stand there. Once a site is destroying paper by the box, throughput and bin size stop being convenience features and start being the reason the policy gets followed at all rather than quietly abandoned.

Key Features

• 27–30 sheets per pass, the highest capacity of any machine covered here and roughly triple a typical deskside cross-cut unit.
• 1 HP motor at 28 ft/min, sized for sustained departmental use rather than occasional bursts.
• 26-gallon shred bin, which at strip-cut density holds a great deal of destroyed paper before anyone has to intervene.
• Rated for CDs and DVDs alongside staples, paper clips and credit cards.
• 10.25-inch feed opening for letter and legal with clearance to spare.
• Lifetime limited warranty on cutting shafts and wheels, with automatic cut-off when the bin is full or the cabinet is opened.

Specifications

What's in the Box

Assembled floor-standing cabinet with the 26-gallon shred bin and operating instructions. Shred bags are not included. At this bin size a bag is effectively required — emptying 26 gallons of loose strips by tipping the bin is not a realistic routine.

Who Should Buy This — and Who Should Not

This belongs in a print room, a mailroom or a central copy area serving a whole floor. Where a business produces large quantities of paper that must not simply go into open recycling — misprints, obsolete process documentation, superseded price lists, old proposal drafts — the 2604 strip-cut absorbs it faster than anything else in the Destroyit range at this price, and clears out legacy CDs at the same time.

It is the wrong machine for regulated records. P-2 leaves 4 mm strips, and a strip carries a readable column of every line it crosses; reconstruction is tedious but entirely possible. For personal, medical, financial or HR data you want the P-5 version of this cabinet (DSH0361L) at 14–16 sheets, or the 2604 P-4 if your policy accepts that level. Many sites run both: this machine for bulk paper and a P-4 or P-5 machine beside it for anything with a name on it. Buying this one alone and using it for everything is the mistake to avoid.

Siting and Installation

The 2604 ships assembled and runs from an ordinary 115 volt outlet, so installation amounts to getting 123 lb into position and leaving clearance for the cabinet door. Site it where the noise and the bag handling belong — a print room, mailroom or service corridor — rather than in open-plan space. Order bags with it. Thirty gallons of strip waste is heavy, and the routine you want is lifting a bag out, not tipping a bin.