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Panasonic KP4A-BK Kp-4a battery pencil sharpener, black, 1 Unit  | 
 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: Office Product
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $13.60
You Save: $8.35 (38%)
New (22) from $13.60
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Color: Black
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 3.4 x 1.8
Warranty: Manufacturer's limited one-year warranty.
MPN: 53812
Model: KP4ABK
UPC: 092281137506
EAN: 0092281137506
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Battery-powered, compact sharpener with hardened steel blades. Has heavy-duty motor and safety switch. | | • | Compact and portable--great for home, school and office. | | • | Hardened steel blades ensure a 16-degree point. | | • | Semi-transparent shavings receptacle. | | • | Powered by a heavy duty motor. |
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Product Description
Battery-Operated Portable Pencil Sharpener
Amazon.com Product Description
The Panasonic KP4A battery-powered pencil sharpener is a sleek, compact unit that's at home in a wide variety of settings. Whether you're a contractor on the go, an artist that moves around a studio, or a student of any age, this slim, mobile sharpener is a great addition to your tool kit. And with its hardened steel blades, it's easy to keep a perfect point on all your pencils.  | The Panasonic KP4A battery-powered pencil sharpener offers: - A slim, portable design
- A perfect 16-degree point every time
- An auto shutter that prevents shavings spillage
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This is a high-end luster photo paper. View larger. | Trim, Portable, and Reliable
This battery-powered sharpener offers a thin profile that's easy to tuck in your bag on the way to class or the office, so you never get held up in the middle of a task by a broken or dull pencil. Dependable, hardened steel blades ensure a perfect 16-degree point on each pencil you sharpen. And a heavy-duty, gear-driven motor provides reliable performance over time. An auto shutter prevents shavings spillage, so you don't have to waste time cleaning up messes. A semi-transparent shavings receptacle makes it easy to tell when your sharpener needs to be emptied, and a safety switch prevents the unit from operating when the shaving receptacle has been removed. This sharpener uses four AA batteries (not included). What's in the Box
Battery powered pencil sharpener.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Excellent sharpener August 3, 2004
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I use this on high-quality colored art pencils. They are very soft and shatter on ordinary pencil sharpeners with blades. This sharpener uses gears instead of a blade and sharpens at the same angle as other sharpeners that use gears (those with blades sharpen at a different angle). This is a replacement for my first one which lasted ~10 years and saved me ~$100 worth of pencils (these pencils are about a dollar each). I will not use another style.
 Great sharpening BUT broke after 10 pencils August 20, 2004
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I bought two sharpeners. I sharpened about ten pencils with the first one (excellent sharpening while it lasted), and something "let go" inside. The motor ran but the rotating blade had no more power - as soon as I pressed the pencil into the blade it would stop turning while the motor continued running freely.
I unwrapped the second sharpener to see if it would hold up better. Again, after about 10 pencils, exactly the same thing happened.
When I disassembled one of them to analyze the failure, I discovered that a crucial area of the plastic gear that drives the blade mechanism was stripped away so that the gear was spinning practically freely. It was unable to drive the blade mechanism with any significant strength.
Conclusion: This product is potentially an excellent pencil sharpener but it has a major design weakness in its drive train. I only put one star on this review because zero stars is not available.
Right to the point September 27, 2004
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I've run my Panasonic KP-4A sharpener for nearly a decade, with nary a hitch. It chisels keen points quickly, with a little accompanying noise that wouldn't be disturbing in most situations. In fact, the pitch tells you when the sharpening is achieved. Seems unbreakable to me, as long as one does not force pencils downward--just hold them steady and in 5 seconds, the job's done. Its sleek, compact, cordless design works on any desktop.
The Best Pencil Sharpener March 17, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Panasonic KP-4A is the best (yes, best) portable pencil sharpener I have ever seen. I have owned a few in the past, and they never worked very well; they were loud, cut crudely and broke the lead about half the time. The KP-4A cuts better than many desktop shapeners- and I mean better. It is loud, but no more than other models and its sound is more of a mechanical hum than a grinding roar. I would definetely buy this if you ever have situations where you need to write but might not by near a sharpener. I highly recommend this product, and, for its price, why not? :-)NOTE: If you would need to use this in really quite environments- don't. No portable electric one will be quiet enough so you'll need a manual one.
What a Shame, Panasonic August 16, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Go for the electric and more robust models. This one had a great call, small and mobile, easy to use. But it lasted for no more than 3 months, under very light duty.
Internal plastic parts fell shy on expectations, as did Panasonic's customer care when prompted to service it... in fact don't you ever try to use their customer care email form, it simply does not work.
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