Bosch quiet shredder

[Reentrant]

I bought a Bosch AXT 1600 quiet shredder several years ago after many rave reviews in this group. It's had a lot of use and now the helical cutter is getting blunt and has a few nicks, which may be why it's started to jam more. Maybe I'm too impatient and shred stuff that's too green, but I'm sure it used to cope when new. I guess it would be pretty difficult to sharpen the cutter.

Anyway I had planned to replace it with an AXT 2200 that uses cogs rather than the mincer mechanism, but now I see there's an AXT25D that's more powerful yet cheaper than the 2200. Anyone have one yet?

[John Rumm]

Not answering your question, but I had a similar problem with my older AXT2000 model[1] - that uses the same helical mechanism as yours. I ordered a new helix from Healeys tools, and that fixed it. It was not particularly cheap - but much cheaper than a new shredder.

[1] It was getting blunt anyway, but my mate borrowing it and then accidentally feeding it a bit of angle iron was the final straw!

[Reentrant]

Thanks. Can't think what tool you could use to cut up angle iron ;-)

I looked on the Healey site and a new blade is £56 . Not sure if that includes postage without registering. I can collect a new 25D at Argos for £195 (cheapest I've found) but that may be worth it for a much more powerful shredder with a better design.

[readthisbot]

Just to add my own "not to answer you question" thought.

We bought a pretty crappy cross-cut shredder and used it for several months. It did the job, noisily. One day, instead of emptying the shreddy stuff in the bin (no bin bags!), I popped it in the logburner and put a match to it. A large lightbulb appeared above my head and we haven't used the shredder since.

You might well say Duh...

D

[Steve Firth]

How did it work at shredding branches and other garden waste?

[Steve Firth]

The Helix seems to be about £65 inc VAT at most places. There's also an "insert" £4 which seems to get replaced at the same time.

I'm glad that our shredder is one of the spinning disk type with a blade that can be sharpened and replaced for pennies if necessary.

[readthisbot]

Especially now I realise that you were talking about garden shredders.... Strewth....

[John Rumm]

The attraction of the helix or cog type is they self feed and are fairly quite. The spinning disc ones are better on soft green stuff though IME.

[dmc]

Blimey, no angle grinder suggestions? :-)

Darren

[mike]

If you can live without the Bosch name, you can get a quiet shredder at B&Q or Lidl for =A399 these days.

[Reentrant]

I can answer my own question - no-one has one according to

I got an AXT 2200 from Axminster for £179.95 inc. delivery. That's quite a lot less than elsewhere but sod's law says someone else is even cheaper.