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Perfect Tear Chrome Paper Towel Holder, Horizontal Wall-Mounted Reviews
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Wow! It’s great!,
You’d think it would be hard to get excited by something as inane as a paper towel holder. I originally saw this product in several mail-order catalogues, priced at 30 – 40 dollars. For the 10 bucks it’s priced at here, it is WELL worth it! I work behind a bar and have two of this item back there – being a bartender I’m almost constantly wet from being elbow deep in the sinks. I hate handling things or making drinks with wet hands, so on a busy night I probably go through 7 or 8 full rolls of towels. I use so many, a customer recently asked if I was Obsessive Compulsive – not quite, but I like clean and dry surfaces everywhere around the bar. These holders have held up well, I thought the ratcheting mechanism might be cheaply made and eventually give out – no sign of that yet. The ratchet is well made and well balanced – not so much resistance as to force you to dispense a single sheet at a time, but enough that you can tear whatever you’ve pulled off at the perforation every time. It’s also solidly built and handles abuse really well – when busy, I won’t fuss with a delicate mechanism – everything gets slammed around and knocked around with considerable force. Towel rolls remount quickly and easily. I’m pretty rough on equipment and have broken most things behind that bar at least once. This product definitely holds up under the toughest commercial abuse. If you’re a big fan of the oversized rolls, they may rub against whatever surface you mount this too, but it still works.
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|Disappointed after trying two of these…Updated,
Initial Review Posted 2-26-10: With my family having the wasteful habit of tearing off 2 to 4 sheets to wipe up a few droplets on the counter, this holder is one of the best investments I have made in awhile. My family was going through $30 per month in rolls and now the usage is down to less than $15 per month. Made my money back in less than 2 weeks!
4-3-10 Update after using the product:
I purchased 2 of these and now find that although initially these holders worked excellent and as advertised, I now have no recourse but to downgrade my rating from 5 stars to 2 stars. The problem with this product is not the design – in fact the ratcheting/tension mechanism is pure genius. The problem lies in the materials they used to manufacture the product. After disassembling the broken holders I found that the internal ratchet that produces the tension on the spool is made of the cheapest thin brittle plastic I’ve seen. The plastic spline on the ratchet on both units broke with normal use within a month. After they break, all you have is a normal roller without tension. Had they thought of upgrading the material to metal for the ratchet/spline and charged a little more for this product, I’m quite sure people would be happy to pay a bit more for this product, as it was very useful before it broke.
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|Elegant and functional,
Hold the cardboard tube, not the towels, as you press a roll onto the spindle or the towels will “telescope.” No yanking off 20 towels by accident and true one-handed operation. Solid construction and unobtrusive footprint. Great product!
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