How to clean blade and screen

Couple of things to look at
1 check the grating blade. Maybe clogged therefore need cleaning or need replacing due to bluntness
2 motor may be slipping true to overload. Place fruit in a little at a time
hope this helps

twist the top to remove the strainer blade

Wear leather gloves or double rubber gloves. Hold on right on top of the sharp blades and turn it. You can also bend a 1/8 th inch diameter thick wire, galvanized or anything metal and insert both ends on the holes on the blades and turn it. Make sure you don't slip your hands on the sharp blades.


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I hope this helps.

You remove the top and back end. (you will need to put the silver handle down to do this) You then need the crescent tool to unhook the blade. After the blade comes out, the strainer and top level will come off with no further problem.
If for some reason you do not have the crescent tool, if there is someone to hold the strainer still, you can use two screwdrivers in the holes of the blade and press down and turn with those instead. I JUST had to do this when I realized mine came without the stinking tool!

TRY AND RESTRAIN THE MOTOR AND
REVERSE TWIST THE STRAINER.

Assuming the motor is not totally burned yet, Make sure the blade is fiitted in its place right. Take the blade out again and fit it right along with the strainer. If it is not seated and fitted well, it will touch the upper cover and will not turn and will smell burnt.

I have a Jack LaLanne power juicer model number JLS-8 and lost instruction manual and don't remember how to remove filter basket to clean machine.

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Take off the top part of the juicer that has the chute. You will see the blade and basket. The blade appears to be attached to the basket with three small screws but is actually screwed onto the basket by a large screw that protrudes out of the basket underneath the blade. So the trick is to unscrew the blade, turning it to the left by using maybe a small screwdriver that you will have to put into one of the two small holes that are on the blade surface and pushing the blade to the left. This should loosen the blade and then you can just unscrew the blade off the basket. Once you get that blade off, the rest of the juicer comes apart. The newer models come with a little tool with a couple of arms that go down into those holes and loosen the top. Good luck.

I didn't have the appropriate "crescent tool" either, so I took a small screwdriver and while holding on to the outer orange sieve, I rotated the inner piece counter clockwise and it loosened so that I could fully disassemble the machine.

if you have a jack lalanne it comes with an orange handle that fits into the sharp cutter and you twist it to tighten/loosen the blade. hope this helps