Overview: The Tamerica Durawire

Combo is a high quality 3:1 pitch twin loop wire binding machine that

replaces the original Tamerica Durawire binding machine.This

heavy duty metal binding machine is designed for small and medium sized

organizations that are looking to bind their documents with wire-o,

double loop, double-o or twin loop wire.With heavy duty

metal construction and a great set of features, the Tamerica Durawire

is certainly a machine to consider when choosing a wire binding system

for your office.

Strengths / Features: The

Durawire Combo boasts CAT5E Cable metal construction that is actually

quite impressive. The entire body of the machine is made of steel

including the wire closer, wire holder, binding table and punching

mechanism. This should help to ensure that the Durawire will remain

strong and reliable for years when used normally.The Wire

Closer on this machine is heavy and built well. It has two heavy duty

metal adjustments to ensure that your spines are closed evenly every

time. The mechanism that operates the wire closer is also made of heavy

duty steel and shouldn't have problems with slipping over time.Unlike

the original Durawire, the Durawire combo has a wire hanger on the

front of the machine to make the process of adding the pages onto the

wire-o spines easier. This is an important feature and the design of

hanger on the Durawire-Combo is excellent. Unlike other machines that

use a clamping mechanism that can deform the wires, this machine uses a

series of hooks that allow the wires to keep their original shape.This

machine has an adjustable depth of punch margin control to allow you to

change the distance of the holes from the edge of the paper. It also

has preset disengageable dies. These dies make this machine compatible

with letter size, oversize, half letter and A4 sizes of paper.

Weaknesses / Limitations: The

Durawire combo has a punching capacity of 15 sheets of 20lb paper. For

binding a few small documents per day this should be adequate. However,

higher volume users will most likely find that this punching capacity

greatly reduces productivity during the binding process. Several

machines are available on the market in a similar price range to this

machine with larger punching capacities.This machine only

has a couple of disengageable dies and they have to be disengaged using

an allen key that is provided with the machine. Other similarly priced

machines on the market have fully disengageable dies and you don't have

to use a special tool to disengage them. The fact that not all of the

pins on this machine are disengageable means that it cannot be used to

bind legal sized and custom length documents.The

Durawire-Combo is a 3:1 pitch binding machine which means that it

punches 3 holes per inch. It is compatible with three to one pitch

wires, GBC Proclick spines and special 3:1 pitch spiral coil. However,

it cannot be used to bind thicker documents using double loop wire. The

largest size of wire that is compatible with this machine is 9/16"

which will hold approximately 125 sheets of 20lb paper. If you need to

bind documents larger than that, this machine might not be the best

choice.

Recommendation: The Tamerica

Durawire combo is built well, has a decent set of features and really

isn't too bad of a machine for light to moderate usage. It will bind

documents with wire, Proclick and 3:1 pitch coil and is great for

occasionally binding small sized documents.However, the lack

of fully disengageable dies, limited punching capacity and less than

stellar appearance of this machine put it at a disadvantage compared to

other machines on the market.In fact, the Tamerica TW3100 is

actually cheaper and has more features. With that in mind, it is hard

to recommend customers buy this machine over some of the other feature

rich machines that are available on the market.

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