Powermatic I Elite Cigarette Maker with Accessories Black Metallic

The Powermatic 1 cigarette loader is simply the best injector machine on the market today, in just about every way possible. The construction and ruggedness is far and away head and shoulders above any other manual injector I've ever tried, and I've tried quite a few. The action is smooth, and the results are consistent. The linear movement of the "throwing arm" makes this injector dead easy to use, and this makes it fast. I fire up an episode of some TV show on Amazon Prime Streaming, and start loading. With my old Topomatic or even my Powermatic 2 auto-injector I'd be lucky to get maybe 3 accurately rolled packs in ~30 minutes. Sue me, I unload or tear apart "bad" loads. With the Powermatic 1, I can do pretty much a whole carton in about 45 minutes, and the results are very nearly perfect, much more so than any other injector I've ever used. I attribute this to the LACK of plastic parts in this device and it's heft, that allows the device to be stable and solid feeling. Combine this injector, a good tube, a decent tobacco and a Casspin Closer, and you've got smokes that don't "empty" themselves in your case, and smoke seamlessly. The Powermatic 1 is also not as finicky about the humidity of the tobacco as every other device I've tried. The "Goldilocks zone" between too dry and too wet is huge in comparison to it's peers. At it's current price point, it's in the same ballpark as every other "good" injector, and the craftsmanship and attention to detail is superior to it's peers. Disassembly to clean it out is easy, but here's where my ONLY two nitpicks are. The screw on the back that holds the handle to the bottom is difficult to put back in. I think because it's a fraction too short to get started accurately, but it's really not a dealbreaker because the handle is barely needed at all. If it doesn't go back in, no problem, works fine without it in place. The other one is a bit more crucial. The block that connects the arm linkage to the spoon carrier is very soft aluminum. the setscrew that holds the linkage to the carrier WILL WORK LOOSE. It's the nature of mechanics. Once that happens it's a hop,skip and jump away from that setcrew falling out. it is an incredibly easy fix and doable by just about anyone, EXCEPT that the soft alloy of the block, the hardness of the setcrew and the "stiffness" of retention nut all work in concert to basically pull the threads out of that block I think having separate screws to affix the linkage to the block and a separate one to retain the carrier in it's place would alleviate the issue, especially if a slightly harder alloy of aluminum was used in the block itself.

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.)

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

I started rolling my own smokes back when the taxes got crazy,think it was around 2010 or so,and bought a topomatic since it was easily available,and that thing lasted me 10 years cranking out 2-3 packs a day,and still actually works, although a bit sloppy,I bought another just like it about a year and a half ago,thought I could get another 10 years from it,great,but low and behold only about a year or so after I got it,rivets where ovaled out,and literally had more slop than my old one,upon further inspection,boy did they downgrade the parts in those from my first one I got,to the point it was almost disturbing the difference in quality,and I paid like 25 more bucks for it than I did my first one,so I machined a few pieces to make the thing work decent,and finally decided to try something different,and after all the big reviews about this badboy I said to myself,it's 5 bucks cheaper than I paid for that last piece of junk,and got it,and this thing is awesome ,so easy to crank out a smoke a toddler could do it(just an example, don't have your kids make your smokes,lol),and can make a pack at least twice as fast if not quicker,first thing I did when I got it,was open the thing up,before I even tried the first smoke,and I'll say,I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the whole mechanism,it's all steel besides one plate that pushes the blade in,and how this works that heavy duty abs hinge is a proper move in the design,and should last a long time,much longer than if that same piece was metal,the stress points are much better handled by the high quality abs used,so I'm very impressed,and that is something I don't get to say much these days,if at all really anymore. So if you're in the market for a new smoke cranker,just get this,you will not be sorry. And that there is my 2 cents,I mean 30 cents worth.:) Good day

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.

I don't write many reviews but...This Powermatic I took the place of my dying Top- O - Matic ( I've had three-two down and third on last legs- It seems the internals just wear due to their soft metal and the machine lasts about a year in my hands YMMV) and on a bit of a gamble based on reviews I felt compelled to try it out. At this early juncture ( one week ) it appears superior in every way to the product it replaced. Construction feels superior and time will tell but the action of it's use is what can be assessed now. The straight pull down handle is natural in motion and does not require me to use so much of my left hand to hold the unit in place. The injection of tobacco feels very positive whether I load a little too light or a little heavy (I have not tried to "overload" the machine). Too light and I tamp down the ciggie, a little too much and it looks like it would fill 100mm tube just fine and I take off the excess and do not need to tamp down. There is a space above the injection chamber where you can leave extra tobacco which has sides and a slight downward cant to it that allows quick access to more tobacco. Well built, more ergonomic and this is a machine I can recommend to people who are on the fence about SYO cigs. If anything changes I will update but for now this appears to be a quantum leap ahead of what I had previously. Edit 02/21/13 Purchased almost exactly two months ago and it has taken a dump. Nothing unusual with cig making until it just failed. Purchased through Amazon via Hank Star sales but there is no way to contact Hank Star shown. The return page does not recognize the Amazon order number and Amazon referred me to Powermatic Tools, who have nothing to do with this product. I have an email in to Zico USA who is the distributor. One year warranty should be easier to get repaired or exchanged than this after 2 months. Amazon for their part offered a partial refund but I pay the shipping back also. I just ordered the Powermatic II ( am I nuts?!) which seems to have fewer negative reviews concerning failures. I will be happy to have the manual as a spare if it gets repaired. Will try to keep you informed. Update: 3/29/13 I sent the machine back to Powermatic on my nickel and they repaired and returned it to me today which is about three weeks turn around. I have not made any smokes with it yet but the machine looks well refurbished, almost new. I will have to stuff a few to make sure it works , then back into storage to sit as backup to the electric which I find to be more consistent and forgiving in its stuffing plus a little faster to use. Kudos and thanks to Powermatic for making two fine stuffing machines and standing behind their warranty when needed. Keep on stuffing!

I was using the top version of this. The crank was much harder on my wrists and was not filling the tube all the way. This product is much better. The crank goes up and down instead of sideways which is way better on the wrists. I have yet to have a problem filling my tubes. Make sure you have the tabbacco all the way in and you will have no problems. My dad has this one and is why I purchased it. He has had it 3 or 4 years now where my top one only lasted around a year. He has wrist problems and says this one is way better on his wrists and it is really easy to repair if something goes wrong on it. Best roller for your money. My dad and I have had several rolling machines and this is our favorite crank one. They also have a very good electric one. I have their mini as well and it is perfect for travel.

This is the 7th cigarette machine I've purchased. All the other brands failed within 4-6months, both electric and manual. The slit machine type lever is a lot less fragile to the mechanism than the crank style. I waited 6months to write this so I would be able to give an accurate assessment. It still works like new.