I've stuffed so far about 1,000 cigarettes with the machine. It only go King sleeves (eg Aldi). The mechanical system is sufficiently stable and can be viewed from below. The rubber surface must be removed after each 200 cigarettes, for cleaning of the inner life, by dusting brush or similar. A vulnerability is guiding the Stopfdornes be, which is made of plastic and rubbing against the metal edges along the hopper. Let's see how long does that. (Avoiding see below) Operation is simple: first push tobacco left and right into the corners, fill the middle loose. Something pressing and spread evenly and then rotate the lever. You can feel even when you close the hopper, if the cigarette will be too tight. Then do not pull through, but the tobacco again partly scrape out (paper clip). After a few cigarettes has the capacity under control. There are perfect cigarettes (as opposed to the electric wire coil-fillers). I need each cigarette about 40 seconds (90 cigarettes per hour). A box with 200g tobacco is processed in 2 1/2 hours to 220-270 cigarettes (fine cut tobacco or volume). Depending on how the sleeve a little too short, right or a bit too long (max. 2 mm) pushes the tobacco into the corners filled. Touch the cigarette to the filter or the front helps to conclude the tobacco exactly with the edge of the sleeve. The cigarettes are not immediately filled equally hard after filling. The tobacco comes later on in the case. Too moist tobacco Stopfdorn no longer goes back to the existing spring force, leading to strike back. When added to dry tobacco, the tobacco in the sleeve is then no longer properly because the sheets are broken. There are uneven burn. The cigarettes are perfect if they are then stored as follows: A plastic container halfway Tight fitting. Therein another small plastic container, open at the top, 2 cm lower, filled with folded paper towels (vertical layers). This brine (40g salt per 100 ml water) to 2/3 of the height and even a teaspoon of salt on top. In it (in large containers ;-)) store the cigarette a few days. The humidity will be adjusted to 65% to max.75% (physics: vapor pressure of saturated salt solutions; you just filled water, which humidity is up to 99% increase). Place it in a place with constant temperature, without sunlight. Cheaper you can not have a humidor. The cigarettes so stored are less sharp, the tobacco is going well in the sleeve on and you have a perfect burn; How Purchased! Volume tobacco and coarse cuts must be a little harder stuff (0.75 g); Fine cut can be easily stuffed (0.9g). The Häckselanteil (tobacco powder) from the tobacco tin can cram on the filter page; you do not smoke the last 10mm anyway. Here at the reviews often criticized: the plastic screw of the lever would demolish. This can happen only if you try to press XXX Hard cigarettes by force into the sleeve. The normal stuffing goes with very little force. Recommendation: Fill the tobacco not only in the bay, but indoors press it down slightly, so not as much tobacco must be cut off at the shaft top when closing the shaft. Then you have the tap density better in sense and hardly need force to close the shaft (first part of the lever path). Update 02/28/2015: "The Micro Matic mini" has a wearing part: This is the plastic part of the Stopfschiebers. The Stopfschieber can be upgraded easily. The neck of Stopfschiebers after about 2000 Stopfvorgängen already visible thinner (by 10%). One can (0.2 mm sheet thickness) U-shaped bend a 2mm wide strip of sheet metal from a jam jar lid around the neck; Turn ends of the metal strip back on each other in tamping. The slot in the tobacco shaft is wide enough so that the mechanism is still running smoothly. Still perfect cigarette, best it comes with quite dry tobacco volume.
