Hi,

The Carrots and Beets and Sweet potatoes should not be fibrous as you are saying they are !

"IF" they are like this, then they may have too much Potassium in them and may have Potassium Nitrate, which is not good for you !

Potassium Nitrate will "STOP" your Blood from carrying "Oxygen" !

How long can you live without Oxygen ?

You may want to find some better vegetables ?

These may be Poor Quality vegetables !

I have a champion juicer and it has juiced many things in it's life and has not had any parts replaced yet !

I have no problem with it juicing these kinds of Good Quality foods, as mine are "NOT" fibrous !

Too much Potassium and not enough Calcium and Phosphate may allow these vegetables to become too Fibrous !

Smile Tis your choice.

Hi.

I have a Champion (Household 2000+) and have been making mostly my favorite apple/carrot juice with it. I always get moist pulp and usually there's some stuck in the juicer including right behind the screen. I thought this was unacceptable as pulp-ejecting juicers should be able to be used all day without washing. I tried to solve this by running the pulp through it again and again. But eventually I ended up setting up a juice press myself and started to use Champion as a grinder. (You can read my postings regarding this below under "Juice Press or Greenstar.")

Anyway when I tried celery, its fiber got all around the blades and never came out. I've never run sweet potatoes through it but done beets and I thought it was okay except for beet greens.

When you get warm juice and pulp, I believe this means your motor is heating up because you're feeding veggies too fast. So you may want to slow down and at the same time set your fridge's temperature low to keep vegetables cold (so that you can keep enzymes alive when you juice it.)


Kentaro

Yay! thanks for feed back from Champion owners! I've been poking around further on the internet, found some answers to I own question... and now hearing it from you guys...this just seems to be the way that Champions handle root-type veggies and celery. (I chop my Celery in tiny pieces but the veins still get caught up in there) I always stop and wash the parts when things get warm due to my lack of patience and shoving carrots quickly down the shoot, because I don't want my juice getting "cooked". This juicer works great for my price range, and considering I got it off ebay...
I suppose if I'd paid $300 for it, or $600, like some juicers, I'd be really ticked off right about now though!

If you are doing a juice mixture, such as incorporating apple in with your root veggies, I believe what my aunt and uncle do is alternate. A few pieces of carrot, then some apple, then some more carrot, then more apple, then some beets, etc. using the juicier things to help the mixture move along.

that the grinding head may be worn and/or the housing may be warped.
The newer Champions from late 80s on, use a softer plastic than the originals and are especially prone to wear.

Certainly Celery has strings {you can even strip them off and not worry about chopping up} - BUT I've owned many Champions over the years, and only have problems with carrots or beets when the the pieces are worn or warped.

If the the motor cuts out when juicing carrots then it has been been abused and overheated, sometimes a new thermal cut-out switch replaced internally helps, but really this is only a band-aid as its the motor windings that have overheated.