Overview: The Tamerica DurawireCombo is a high quality 3:1 pitch twin loop wire binding machine thatreplaces the original Tamerica Durawire binding machine.Thisheavy duty metal binding machine is designed for small and medium sizedorganizations that are looking to bind their documents with wire-o,double loop, double-o or twin loop wire.With heavy dutymetal construction and a great set of features, the Tamerica Durawireis certainly a machine to cake production line consider when choosing a wire binding systemfor your office. Strengths / Features: TheDurawire Combo boasts a heavy duty metal construction that is actuallyquite impressive. The entire body of the machine is made of steelincluding the wire closer, wire holder, binding table and punchingmechanism. This should help to ensure that the Durawire will remainstrong and reliable for years when used normally.The WireCloser on this machine is heavy and built well.
It has two heavy dutymetal adjustments to ensure that your spines are closed evenly everytime. The mechanism that operates the wire closer is also made of heavyduty steel and shouldn't have problems with slipping over time.Unlikethe original Durawire, the Durawire combo has a wire hanger on thefront of the machine to make the process of adding the pages onto thewire-o spines easier. This is an important feature and the design ofhanger on the Durawire-Combo is excellent. Unlike other machines thatuse a clamping mechanism that can deform the wires, this machine uses aseries of hooks that allow the wires to keep their original shape.Thismachine has an adjustable depth of punch margin control to allow you tochange the distance of the holes from the edge of the paper. It alsohas preset disengageable dies. These dies make this machine compatiblewith letter size, oversize, half letter and A4 sizes of paper. Weaknesses / Limitations: TheDurawire combo has a punching capacity of 15 sheets of 20lb paper. Forbinding a few small documents per day this should be adequate. However,higher volume users will most likely find that this punching capacitygreatly reduces productivity during the binding process. Severalmachines are available on the market in a similar price range to thismachine with larger punching capacities.This machine onlyhas a couple of disengageable dies and they have to be disengaged usingan allen key that is provided with the machine. Other similarly pricedmachines on the market have fully disengageable dies and you don't haveto use a special tool to disengage them. The fact that not all of thepins on this machine are disengageable means that it cannot be used tobind legal sized and custom length documents.TheDurawire-Combo is a 3:1 pitch binding machine which means that itpunches 3 holes per inch.
It is compatible with three to one pitchwires, GBC Proclick spines and special 3:1 pitch spiral coil. However,it cannot be used to bind thicker documents using double loop wire. Thelargest size of wire that is compatible with this machine is 9/16"which will hold approximately 125 sheets of 20lb paper. If you need tobind documents larger than that, this machine might not be the bestchoice. Recommendation: The TamericaDurawire combo is built well, has a decent set of features and reallyisn't too bad of a machine for light to moderate usage. It will binddocuments with wire, Proclick and 3:1 pitch coil and is great foroccasionally binding small sized documents.However, the lackof fully disengageable dies, limited punching capacity and less thanstellar appearance of this machine put it at a disadvantage compared toother machines on the market.In fact, the Tamerica TW3100 isactually cheaper and has more features. With that in mind, it is hardto recommend customers buy this machine over some of the other featurerich machines that are available on the market.
