Poweroll 2 Electric Cigarette Machine - King Size & 100mm

Like every one else we are forced to roll our own cigarettes because of out rages taxes they charge on cigarettes. I watched a comparison review video on the two top cigarette machine rollers. I choosed this for its features has a clean out underneath it so the motor won'r clog up. Remove vent cap. I see that some customers are complaining about clogging up yet there isn't any clogs in the main track. That is because dust particles are clogging the compacter sliding part. So what I do is dump out and brush out all the tobacco. Then open up extender level hold the machine on it's side with top facing me and tap the machine at the same time. Then power it and run it a couple of times. If you can you might be able to power it off as the compacter is closing and the top of it is exposed. Then place it down and brush it off. For me it happens around my fith pack. Another thing that causes clogging is tobacco is to fine when you have fine tobacco just gentle remove off excess tobacco and don't press it in like you normal wold do. The switch lever will do it. This way less jam ups will occur. It's very simple to use and very easy to clean. Take care of it and it will take care of you. Don't worry it pays for it self in the first moth. Every thing 400 cigarette tubes 1 LB of pipe tobacco of what it cost for a pack of cigarettes at $9.78 and today they just went up again. For those who are new this as I am cigarette tobacco has a much higher tax and cost more. For Camel Filter smokers I use Gamberler Pipe Tobacco and Golden Harvest King Size tubes ones in the red box. Cigarettes taste just like the Camels Filters did in the 80's before they added all the fire retardant chemicals. It is so nice to have a real cigarette with out that awful fire retardant taste and they don't go out while you are smoking it, Like the package cigarettes do today. This machine is also great for us who have limited hand use no levers to pull , push and grasp or break off for that matter.

Great cigarette make, last about a year. So about 10000 coffin nails.

I have lowered my rating from 5 stars to only 1 star, because the machine broke after using it for a month and rolling about 4 cartons of cigarettes. Any machine can break, so that it not why I lowered my rating, but instead because of their warranty terms, which I hadn't read until it broke. They charge to replace or repair a machine that breaks, which isn't really a warranty in my opinion. To make a crappy warranty really qualify for scorn from buyers, their one year warranty does not extend to the replacement or repaired device. If it breaks once, you must pay to have it fixed or repaired, and if it breaks again, you are out of luck. It is really ironic that a company whose entire business is based upon addicted customers, then has a business policy that ensures no repeat customers, since we won't want to buy this brand again. -------------------------------------------------------- This is the best cigarette machine I have ever used, and I have tried many kinds in the past 10 years of rolling my own cigarettes. For filtered tubes I like ZEN brand tubes because they are cheapest, and they worked perfectly with this machine. For when I want to roll unfiltered cigarettes, such as for non-tobacco cigarettes, ATHEY brand unfiltered tubes work great as well with this machine. I use a cheap tobacco brand that is cut like pipe tobacco for the sake of lower tax rates on pipe tobacco vs cigarette tobacco. Even with coarse cut tobacco, this machine worked flawlessly. While watching TV for 2 hours, I rolled a 1 pound bag of tobacco (400+ cigarettes). If I was concentrating and not watching TV, it would have taken less than half of that time. Although U.S. prices and tax rates vary by state, for me in Tennessee, the savings for these cigarettes paid for the machine the first time I used it. Unlike some original electrical injectors, this machine does not shred the tobacco, which means cigarettes don't normally drop the fire from the tip. Trying to roll the fine, dusty bits left as the bottom of a bag of tobacco can also produce cigarettes that easily "lose their cherry", so I normally mix the end of one bag with fresh tobacco from a new bag to avoid this problem. For about 5 years, I had been using one of the big orange injectors from Gambler, which was much the same as the other top manual injectors, but I have arthritis in my hands that was making it harder to operate the crank handle. If you have used other spoon type tube injectors, you will love this machine. It works exactly the same, but you simple press the bar, and its motor does all of the hard work. The machine is not automatic. Just as with completely manual spoon type tube injectors, you put the tube on the nozzle and press the tobacco into the slot, but then you only need to gently press its lid closed rather than twisting a crank. The button to fill the tube is part of the safety lid that covers the fill slot to protect your fingers, and only requires slight finger tip pressure to fill the tube. While I was hoping that fully automatic injectors might be affordable by now, they are not only much more expensive, but reviews indicated that most consumer models still have many problems. The insertion of the tube on the injector nozzle and the tamping of the correct amount of tobacco and pressure seem to be tasks that affordable fully automatic machines struggle to perform with comparable proficiency to our fingers. The compaction of the tobacco and its insertion into the tube, are parts of the task that this machine does really well. This machine also makes less noise than my old manual machine. My old injector made a rather loud clanking noise when you pulled its crank handle and when you released it. This machine's electrical motor only makes a slight humming noise when you press the button to fill the tube. It has a lid over the fill slot, which when you close, activates the motor, so it can't activate while you are pressing tobacco into the fill slot. I find it easier to press the tobacco into the fill slot using my fingers rather than the plastic tool these machines provide, so the design of the lid and button is a great safety feature. When you are first starting with a tube injector, it will take a bit of learning for your first 10 to 20 until you learn the feel for how much tobacco to press down into the slot, but if you are used to other spoon injectors, you are ready to make perfect cigarettes with ease. I really like the shape of the loading bin. It holds enough tobacco for a few cigarette, which speeds up the routine. Like other injectors, it will make a bit of mess unless you have a shallow tray underneath to catch loose tobacco. This machine is about half of the size of my old manual injector. With my old machine's size and torque required for its crank handle, I had to sit at a table to operate it, but this one is easy to use with a lap tray lounging on the sofa. This new electrical injector is so small and easy to use, I sat on the sofa with a tray in my lap and rolled enough cigarettes for a month while watching the local and national news for the week on a Friday night. Since I had years of experience using similar machines, I wanted to give it a fair review for a novice, so I also tried things I have learned to avoid doing, just to see how the machine behaved. I tried some tobacco that was bone dry and some that was over-wet. I tried putting not enough tobacco that was not packed tightly enough, as well as mashing in too much that was too tightly packed. I tried some dried out fines from the bottom of a bag. As expected, with overly dry tobacco that wasn't packed in well, I got a partially filled cigarette. When I pressed too much tobacco into the slot, used tobacco that was too wet, or the dry powdered bits at the bottom of the bag, the machine jammed as I expected. I was really happy with how the machine handled the jams. In most cases, I was able to simply press the bar again without having a tube mounted, and the machine ejected the glob of tobacco. When it was jammed too badly to clear the nozzle by itself, it was easy to clear by turning the machine upside down and inserting a rod into the nozzle to clear the jam. The machine includes 2 brushes for cleaning the machine as well as a steel rod for clearing jams. With my old manual Gambler brand injector, I have always used a bamboo skewer to clear jams. Although made for grilling kabobs, I find these bamboo sticks handy for all sorts of DIY and fixit tasks. For clearing jams of the cigarette machines, I prefer using the bamboo to a metal rod, so I'm sure that I won't apply too much pressure and bend or break anything inside the machine. If you are new to rolling your own cigarettes, I'll offer some advice for beginning with this machine. First off, try to quit smoking instead of buying this machine, because getting cigarettes for 75% off will make it harder to quit later. If stopping smoking just isn't going to happen for you, but you want better cigarettes that cost much less, don't waste money buying a cheaper machine; buy this one. Even cheap roll your own tobacco makes better cigarettes than regular brand cigarettes. It might take a few cigarettes to get accustomed to the difference in taste, just as with changing brands, but when you buy your second pound bag of tobacco, you will have already saved the cost of this machine, so your cigarettes from then on will likely be a quarter of the cost of before. Most cigarette brands add extra chemicals to make them burn more evenly, pack into the tubes more easily, automatically extinguish when you leave them in the ashtray, etc., while most brands of roll your own tobacco contains only tobacco, and menthol if you prefer. When my local tobacco store was closed for the Christmas holiday , and I had ran out of tobacco, I bought a couple of packs of my old brand of cigarettes, Marlboro, and was amazed at how they made my throat burn after smoking just a few. I'm not saying that roll your owns will be any less unhealthy, just that they are more enjoyable. Even though I am using King length tubes, I found the machine worked better when I switched the back lever on the machine to produce 100s. With it set for Kings, the King tubes were not being completely filled, with about 1/8 inch left empty at the opening. The tubes were filled snug against the filter, but not enough tobacco was being injected into the tube. With it set for 100s when using King length tubes, it does the opposite and leaves a bit of extra tobacco at the end of the tube. I had this same problems with my old manual injector. I prefer to brush off extra tobacco from the end, rather than having tubes that aren't fully loaded. Before I started rolling my own cigarettes, I smoked 100s, but I have found that with all injectors I have tried, 100s are harder to get well filled. Some injectors will work for 100 tubes, but I had much more hassles with tobacco not filling snug against the filter inside the tubes. This may not sound like a major problem, but when you draw on the cigarette, the empty portion simply collapses without you getting any smoke drawn from the cigarette. Unless I had the tobacco at exactly the right humidity and packed it exactly right, the 100 tubes would often have a gap inside next to the filter, which made them a hassle to try to smoke. If I tried to pack enough tobacco to make sure the 100 tubes were filled, then the machine would jam very frequently. I have not tried 100 tubes with this injector, but given that it works just like manual machines, other than having an electrical motor to replace wrist and elbow power, I strongly suspect it will also work much better for Kings than 100s. If you try 100s and have problems, try using King tubes before giving up on the machine. Even thought I smoked 100s for 30 years, I quickly grew accustomed to Kings for a quarter the cost. As with other injectors, this machine works best if the tobacco is at its best humidity when you first open the bag. If you're new to rolling your own cigarettes, you will get the hang of how the tobacco feels and when it needs a bit more moisture or should be left to dry for a bit. I like my cigarettes to have tobacco that is bit more humid than the injectors prefer. If you ask at your local tobacco store, they often have empty wooden cigar boxes that you can buy cheap. I have a few of these wooden cigar boxes with a handful of moisture pouch buttons in each, which allows me roll 500 cigarettes in an evening and keep them nicely humid and fresh smoking.

Expensive, but worth it.

Overall great product. I've used many others, and this one is by far the best one. I would definitely recommend to anyone!

Great

I have been making my own cigarettes with various machines for the last 15 years . Too many safety features make it difficult to use. The Tobacco chamber where the tobacco goes is to narrow , I assume this is a safety thing so you can't get your fingers in there, but that means you have to use the tamper which makes it more difficult. The chamber guard is obviously a safety feature and it just gets in the way and makes the machine more difficult to use. They could have put a start button on the right side of the machine and done away with that chamber guard. All the safety features are not necessary these are adults using these machines not 10 year old kids. This might just be my opinion only but I think the hopper is slanted too much I thought it would be nice not to have a lever like the Powermatic 2 Plus and it is, but the trade off is this machine is not as easy to use Because of what I have just stated, Lastly the tube nozzle that is notched in the side very easy gets cluttered up with tobacco and causes problems. Besides all that it works good and makes good cigarettes. It works fine with the tubes that I use. We will see if it will stand the test of time but then again, I might just go back to using my Powermatic 2 Plus that still works fine after 2 and a half years, It is much easier for me using my fingers to tell how much tobacco I am getting in there and weather I'm going to have a soft pack, Medium or a hard pack. UPDATE I have been using this machine everyday for over 3 months. Despite the fact that I don't like the design that well , the machine is still making good cigarettes and working fine. I don't use the tamper, just my fingers to get the tobacco in the chamber , the only time it ever jammed up was when I wasn't paying attention, when I was using the fine tobacco from the bottom of the bag. The cover on the bottom to clean it out is hard to get off and I don't see a reason to have it on there anyway , I took mine off and leave it off then it is very easy to pick it up shake the tobacco from the inside and you're done. The little flip up door on the top design, I don't like , it gets in the way , but it is still pretty decent machine

(Update I still have the same one I bought a year and a half later and it still works like it did on day one of buying it. Must buy for people that want to roll cigarettes much quicker!) I bought the Poweroll 2 back in December and since then this product has done everything I needed it to do plus more. The quality is perfect it maybe a lot of plastic on the outside (don't let that fool you it is thick and durable plastic) but the insides are 100% solid metal so it should last anybody quite a long time. Now to the second part. I started out using the tiny plastic roller that did 100s and Kings and it worked well but it was time consuming and if you have any problems with your hands and wrists then this thing is a killer on you so it adds even more time. Well then I used the big metal hand cranked one from top-o-matic which it worked fine but still again hand and wrist problems come into play....then I bought this one and I've been very happy ever since. I can roll a pack of cigarettes in under 5 minutes time if I'm actually paying attention...if I am goofing around then less than 10 minutes tops. Pros - Very solid construction, easy to use (once you understand it), easy to clean, and time saver on your day. Cons - You'll smoke more because it's easier to get a cigarette now (if you was using the cheap crap one) and A slight learning curve to it