I Elite Cigarette Maker with Accessories Black Metallic

I've been stuffing my own for a couple of years now and use a Powermatic-2 electric injector, which I've found to be the BEST electric made that's on todays market, I saw a review and a demo video on the web at Ryo Magazine. Knowing the quality and exceptional engineering of Zico,USA products, I just had to get one of these manual crank spoon fed injectors in case I need some smokes in the event of a power outage,... since I know just about the right amount of tobbaco to put in the tobbaco chamber I started out putting less than needed to get the feel of this new machine, 2 times was all it took, then I made 2 cartons of 100's using my favorite tube, Zen 100's without any trouble what so ever, packed just the way I like my smokes (tight pack) from filter all the way off the end, WOW! what a great machine, as is the electric model however with the Powermatiic-2 I would have to tap the filter about 30% of the time to get them packed at the filter, not the case with this new manual crank injector, for me it's as close to perfect as you can get making your own. By the way, I have at least 5 different machines of different brands on my shelf, not any of them can even come close to the quality of this machine. Top-O-matic,Premier Supermatic are junk compared to this machine, check out the demo at [...] Buy it, this is built like a tank, not a cheaply made high production machine. I've been an Amazon customer for years and this is the first time I've ever did a review on any product, this machine is so great I just felt I had to do it. Go "ZICO,USA" your company will rock the RYO industry. P.S. added 7-10-12 I forgot to mention how easy it is to pull the handle down, you will find it takes very little effort, and the base hardly moves when compacting, where as with topmatic and premier you have to make that stupid half circle motion getting a real work out after 2 or 4 cartons, this new method of how the crank works is amazing to say the least, it's the first manual crank made to use this style of crank. check out the demo video at ryomagazine.com

Bought before. These are way better quality than what they sell in stores. And way easier to use.

this is the easiest cigarette maker i have used. i like to make 3 to 4 cartons in one sitting. does a good job .

Great product, feels like I'm at the casino playing slots. I wish the loader had thicker walls or was sunken in more. I can only stash about 4 to 5 cigarettes in there. Also, I wish it had a way to clean out the tobacco that drops inside, like my Topps I had for 11 years. I like to clean them; it makes them last longer. Love the drop down on the lever storage is easier

Originally I bought the Powermatic 1 injector thinking a manual machine would be more durable and less likely to break with lots less moving parts. Usually the more moving parts you build into something, the more chances something will break. So I thought I would stay simple and durable. When it arrived, I was surprised how big Mr Manual Powermatic 1 was but that was ok. My next surprise was how hard it was to pull the handle. I could do it ok, but my girlfriend could not as it tired her out within a few strokes. (she is 53 and not real strong) Our habit was to sit down and do a whole carton at a time, but with the manual injection machine, it would tire me out half way through and I would quit for the day. Injecting 5 packs in one sitting was as much as I was willing to happily endure. I am 48 and in good shape. I could force myself to do more, but then the fun was all gone out of it. NO FUN, NO DO. My next surprise was how easy it was to over-pack it and cause the machine to jamb. Jambs were frequent with the manual injector, about 1 jamb a pack. Not bad but not great. After I got tired of the frequent jamming, I began muscling my way through a jamb forcing it instead of cleaning it out. It seemed ok until 2 weeks later it broke. No big surprise here since I was forcing it, but I was way too tired of the jamb frequency and just didn't care anymore. I was fed up. It was a very fine line between not enough tobacco packed in the chamber and the cigarette being too loose, and too much in the chamber and causing a jamb. That line was too fine for my preferences. It was too hard to walk that very narrow line and jambs were way too frequent for my taste. Between the jamb frequency and how hard it was to pull the lever 100-200 times for a carton or a half carton, I was about fed up with the machine. It was beautiful, big and very sturdy looking instilling confidence in its mere appearance. But the bottom line was performance and here I was not real happy when I would think about how much injecting I had ahead of me in the next year of smoking. I was definitely left wishing I had bought the electric injection machine (Powermatic 2) instead. This is why I love buying certain product types at amazon. Especially the kind where I'm not certain about a new product type. Amazon gives me confidence I will not regret my purchase by being stuck with something I dislike. Amazon has earned my loyalty. They have proven I can trust them. My lucky day came and our 2-3 week old Powermatic 1 manual injector broke. Now was my chance to trade out this machine that did not make me happy with one that I hoped would make me happy. Immediately I jumped on amazon and bought the Powermatic 2 electric machine. I had read all the reviews on both products previously and watched many videos of each on you tube. I couldn't find anything negative about either Powermatic machine. But somehow I had missed, or nobody mentioned how hard the manual machine was if you aim to do more than 1 pack at a time. 1 pack never bothered me, but doing 5 or more packs back to back seriously tired me out. As soon as I finished ordering the new electric machine (Powermatic 2), I then applied for a return and refund for my broken machine. To my surprise amazon was even willing to pay the return shipping on the broke machine as well as refund the ENTIRE purchase price. It took 2 weeks for the refund to show up on my credit card as credit. It only took amazon 1 minute to subtract from my card the cost of the new machine just ordered. But that's all ok. I didn't have a problem with any of that. I got my refund and got the better machine. I love getting what I want. 7 days later the new Powermatic 2 machine arrived. Hurriedly I opened it up eager to give it a try. Yah, I know, I'm just like a little kid. Boy was I surprised how small the electric machine was compared to the manual machine. I almost wondered if you could really fit quality into a foot print that small? But the truth was in the testing so at it I went. Now its one month later and I have made 8 cartons with the electric machine so I have real experience under my belt for this review. IN A NUT SHELL, I'm perfectly happy with every aspect of it for the money it cost. NOTICE, quality received against purchase cost. It has never jammed with one exception and I pack it much less carefully than I did with the manual machine. In the middle of an injection operation, the power cord came unplugged from the machine and it couldn't finish its stroke. When I put the cord back in, it did not finish the partial stroke but recycled retracting the spoon from the tube leaving the tube only half packed. When I lifted the lever the tobacco chamber opened as usual and by BLIND habit without thinking about what I was doing, I packed more tobacco into the chamber. Then when I pulled the lever down again, the tobacco already sticking out of the nozzle plus all the new tobacco repacked into the chamber was too much and it jabbed with the red light coming on. COOL.... Automatically the machine knew to quit and backed up refusing to break itself. I liked that. A lot actually!!! So I grabbed the included poker and pushed the jammed tobacco out and I was ready to go again in 1 minute. I love the machine refuses to break itself. I love that the machine never jambs except that one exception where I don't blame the machine that it was deprived of the electricity it needed to properly finish its stroke. I am delightfully surprised how powerful its little engine is in that it never lacks the strength to complete an injection regardless how tightly I pack it. Now I don't try to over pack it, but unlike its close relative Mr Manual, it is so incredibly forgiving if you periodically overdo it. When you do over pack it, you can hear the whine of its little engine complaining and grunting letting you know not to continue packing them that tight, but it will finish what it has begun unlike Mr Manual who is famous for quitting and refusing to finish the injection stroke. The manufacture has updated the electric machine by including a larger add on tobacco hopper the earlier models didn't come with for the electric and the Mr. manual still doesn't come with it. It used to be the pile of tobacco you dumped into the hopper had to be so small, that you refilled the hopper every other cigarette. Now with the enlarged add on hopper, I can dump much larger piles of tobacco on and thus refill much less frequently. Now a good size pile of tobacco will inject about 6 cigarettes before needing another refill. MUCH much better. PRO'S for the powermatic 2 electric. Small size and light footprint. Decently fast. Stronger than expected motor. Automatic quitting when jammed and refusal to break itself. New improved hopper. It holds much more than Mr manual did. That also surprised me. Very sturdily built and great quality. You can hear it enough to get feedback from your pack job, but it's NOT loud and I can easily watch and listen to movies while packing and it does not bother me. The noise won't bother anyone. Very tolerant of how tightly you pack the injection chamber. Very forgiving. This surprised me much and pleased me more. Stems? NO problem. It cuts them up and packs them just fine. They taste the same as tobacco so you can NOT notice which cigarette had the super large stem packed in it. Also the Powermatic 1 Mr. Manual had no problem chopping stems during an injection. Both of them have a top of the line cutting blade which chops off any tobacco not stuffed into the chamber. CONS The power cord plugs into the unit and is NOT permanently built in. Its connection is not strong and the cord easily comes out. I'm going to permanently glue my cord connection to the machine so it can't be unplugged so the cord cannot fall out anymore. But as flaws go in my opinion, it's a minor flaw and I would not hesitate to buy another Powermatic 2 again. Nor will I hesitate to recommend it to anyone. And for me, it's an easy fix. Based on quality received for cost spent, the Powermatic 2 electric gets a perfect rating in my finicky book. Mr. Manual Powermatic 1 is the best manual injection machine on the market no doubt and it only falls short if compared to his close relative Powermatic 2 electric. Powermatic 1 got 4 stars from me and that was being a little generous. Poermatic 2 got 5 stars from me and should have been able to get 6 except amazon wont let me do that. Ok, a little off topic. I know this review is supposed to be about the machines. But am I to think you guys don't also use lots of tobacco and tubes? The best place I found to buy both is "BNBTOBACCO". Since I cant give you a link to their website, search it in google with the quotes. I get "Beretta Original King Cigarette Tubes 200ct Carton 5 Pack $12.99". Yup, that's 5 boxes of tubes at 200 tubes per box. Five boxes for 12.99. Then I get (2) "Red River Smooth Pipe Tobacco 16 oz bag $11.99". Yup, one pound bags for 11.99 each. Subtotal: 36.97 Shipping (via Ground Shipping) $8.14 Order Total: $45.11 5 cartons of cigarettes with the right amount of tobacco to fill em all for 45.11 shipped to my door. 5 boxes of tubes is the exact amount virtually to use all 2 pounds of tobacco up. I tried cheaper tobacco that was $2- dollars less a bag but didn't like it. It was too harsh for my tastes. So I stick with the Red River Smooth. To me it's worth the 2 bucks more. The Beretta tubes work perfect with the Powermatic 2 electric. They never rip and always pack perfectly. I once tired "WH" WILDHORSE tubes and they virtually all rip at the end of the tube where the rubber tube holder gets a grip on them while injecting. It only ripps a litte piece of the tube paper off and they are still quite smokable, but it rips nearly every one of them. So you may want to avoid WILDHORSE tubes. Goodluck. If you like my review let me know. "joechrstovan(at)g.m.a.i.l." kom If you can't figure that out, I guess I will never hear from you. Then I can also show you how quickly the Powermatic 2 will do a carton with my uploaded video on my website.

Update 02/04/2019 After a little less than two years this Powermatic I+ is all but dead, far short of the original Powermatic's lasting over four years and being replaced only because of normal wear. The reason is the one-plus has a PLASTIC case and internal parts instead of steel. There's just not much more that I can say in my disappointment other than it's highly unlikely that I'll ever buy another one. It's such a shame when quality is degraded in the upgrading any quality item. Update 03/15/2017: With my Powermatic I showing signs of wear after over four years of making one or two packs of cigarettes each day I decided to order a new one. To my disappointment, I had to return the first new Powermatic I+ because of an apparent timing problem that was causing the injector shaft to hang on the cutter/compressor, but then after receiving the second one I've been fairly well impressed. My old one was never so smooth, so they did make improvements during the four years. The cigarettes are more uniformly packed too, so I really like it. As far as my old one, it still makes a good cigarette, but based on the smoothness of the new I+, my guess is that it will last even longer than than the old one before showing any wear. ---------------- Just so you know that I'm not new to the RYO arena, with my wife smoking too, I've been averaging two packs of king size cigarettes each day for over eight years now. Of course one of my reasons for getting into RYO was the tax attacks on cigarettes, but my main reason was to avoid the (who knows what) chemicals, especially after the "fire safe" mandate. In the beginning I bought a Top-O-Matic (T1) because it was available at a local tobacco shop. During the four years plus that it took me to wear that machine out I tried each and every machine that the shops in this area had set up for demonstration, and I never found one that offered any major advantage over the old T1, so since my first T1 had lasted for over four years, I played it safe and replaced it with another new one. Now at the end of another four years that second T1 is very loose, pretty well worn out, so I decided to look for another replacement. (Note that I've never broken a machine, so both of those old T1s will still make a cigarette.) I never had any interest in the electric machines over just being anchored to an electric socket, and I definitely didn't want one of those older auger type machines after seeing videos of them grinding up the tobacco. I don't doubt that major improvements have been made in all of the latest electric machines, but still, they all require that electric socket. After hours of researching, this "Powermatic I Manual" machine was the only one that captured my attention, and then after reading the review and watching the video in the RYO Magazine web site I had to have one. The following may be more than anyone needs to know, but I think it's important enough for me to type it. The titanium cutter/compressor will handle virtually anything you can pack into the chamber, effortlessly, but be aware that packing too much tobacco into the chamber WILL jam the injector, and I have no doubt that trying to force the injector through will break it the same as with any other spoon-type machine. NEVER apply excessive force to the lever! The warranty does not cover any kind of damage caused by missuse. Also titanium is a very hard metal, meaning that the cutter/compressor will probably stay sharp for years with very little wear, but any foreign object will 'probably' chip the cutting edge. Check the tobacco closely, removing the stems and making sure that nothing goes into the chamber other than tobacco. The tobacco 'dust' can be mixed with stranded tobacco (it's all tobacco) so as to not waste it for as long as care is taken to not jam the injector. (The dust will jam the injector unless it's mixed at least 50/50 with stranded tobacco and is NOT packed into the chamber.) Expect the injection phase to 'BANG' against the stop, especially right at first. That is the ONLY thing about this machine that I had any concern about, and even that no longer concerns me after understanding that it's designed to inject quickly, with speed, to insure the tube is filled completely with perfection. That bang seems to be growing less evident with use (a break-in period maybe), but it's doubtful all of it will go away because of the design. Apparently it doesn't hurt anything anyway, so just ignore it. Finally, since this machine is new to me I have no way of knowing what the life expectancy might be, but what I do know is that it's so far advanced above all other manual type machines there is none to compare. I wouldn't sell it back for twice the amount I paid if that meant doing without it. Happy smoking! (Until the federal dictators make smoking illegal.)

This is the one machine that makes perfect cigarettes every time no matter what tobacco you use. This is the 5th and final machine I buy. Electric machines are very finicky about what you put in it. I have never had consistent success using a moist, finely shredded tobacco in an electric machine. It doesn’t pack the tobacco all the way to the filter; very wasteful and frustrating. A manual machine doesn’t care what you’re putting in it. But the old semi circle crank machines are hard to use and there is really no place to put your tobacco. This one is the answer. The pull down lever is easy to use. Just like pulling down the handle on a slot machine. And there’s the slanted built in tray to feed your tobacco into the chamber. Once you get the hang of how much tobacco to use; you will make a perfect cigarette every time. The instructions say pack loosely with your fingers, but I have better results packing firmly with a plastic packer. I will never go back to a finicky electric machine again. I hope this helps you if you’re considering this machine.

I currently own a Premier injector and while it does the job, I've never been quite satisfied with it. I also have the Powermatic electric roller. I have it and haven't been able to roll a decent cigarette yet. So the other day I ordered the Powermatic I manual injector and I'm so glad I did. I sat down this morning and rolled a couple of cigarettes just to get used to it. It's very different from the Premiere. With that one, you have to fill the corners first, then the middle. Then haul on that damn lever to eject the cigarette. I have arthritis and I dreaded rolling time. The Powermatic is so much easier to use. Spread the tobacco evenly across the chamber, and just pull down the lever. One perfectly rolled cigarette. What I really like is the handle on the back of the machine. With the Premiere, you have to hold onto it one the side near the ejector and I'm constantly pushing my thumb up against the rubber tip that holds the cigarette onto the nipple and ripping the tip of the cigarette. The handle is wonderful. The lever is much better too. The handle is three pieces connected in the middle and the outer pieces roll with your movement so it's smooth and doesn't wear out the palm of the hand. The downward motion is much easier on my wrists and shoulder as opposed to the cross-body motion of the Premiere. I find it moves much easier and more smoothly as well. I rolled an entire carton in about 40 minutes (used to take me about an hour on the Premiere). All in all I think this machine is a good value for the money.