I recently bought four of these and found them to be very noisy. Checking the posts of others on various sites, it turns out that this is/was a fairly common problem. You can quite easily open the machine by undoing the four screws. In the process, you'll have to slice through the labels. I didn't have any grease available to me, so I put very small drops of locomotive lubricating oil on each of the gear wheels and also on the places in the moulding that fit over their axles. I then re-assembled the machine and the noise was reduced, but not nearly completely. I then made them switch back and forth a number of times. It seemed that after sitting for a while the machine operated with less noise. I also tightened the housing screws, as they had originally been, but backed off a quarter turn. I don't know which of these was the most important, but the machine is now operating as quietly as the Tortoise machines which I also have in use. I'm going to repeat this process on the other machines. In the one that I have opened, there was some white grease on the wheels, but not much.
Nice to hear Jenny in her new role! Needed this video too as I'm about to buy some! Thanks guys
Thanks for this Jen! I was confused what the difference between them was, now I know!
You're welcome!
I recently bought four of these and found them to be very noisy. Checking the posts of others on various sites, it turns out that this is/was a fairly common problem. You can quite easily open the machine by undoing the four screws. In the process, you'll have to slice through the labels. I didn't have any grease available to me, so I put very small drops of locomotive lubricating oil on each of the gear wheels and also on the places in the moulding that fit over their axles. I then re-assembled the machine and the noise was reduced, but not nearly completely. I then made them switch back and forth a number of times. It seemed that after sitting for a while the machine operated with less noise. I also tightened the housing screws, as they had originally been, but backed off a quarter turn. I don't know which of these was the most important, but the machine is now operating as quietly as the Tortoise machines which I also have in use. I'm going to repeat this process on the other machines. In the one that I have opened, there was some white grease on the wheels, but not much.