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L'Equip 306400 Visor Natural Processor/Juicer | 
| Brand: L'Equip
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $269.99
Buy New: $219.99
as of 9/5/2010 11:44 EDT details
You Save: $50.00 (19%)
Seller: RawReform
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 540425
Color: Gray
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Size: Standard
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 16 x 8 x 9
MPN: 509
Model: 306400
UPC: 697819005090
EAN: 0697819005090
ASIN: B0000DDT5D
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 100 Watt Juicer and Pasta Maker with gentle masticating juice extraction to preserve vitamins and nutrients lost to standard juicers where the blades create high-heat | | • | Automatic pulp ejection and reverse power to prevent clogging | | • | Easy to assemble and clean; unique design with visor for storage | | • | Includes 5 pasta and noodle nozzles, nut butter, custard and juice nozzles. | | • | 6 year warranty |
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Product Description
Item Info: ? The L'EQUIP 509 VISOR Natural Processor is a unique and eye-catching way to reap the benefits of juicing. From it's sleek design to its powerful motor, this is no ordinary juicer. A conversation piece for your kitchen countertop --- and it juices, too!.,? Multi-purpose wheatgrass, fruit, and vegetable juicer,? Unique design with stealth visor,? Stainless steel "single gear" masticating extraction,? Slow rotation and powerful motor chews fibers for full release of enzymes, vitamins, minerals. .
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 So far, so good September 21, 2009
RMO
I purchased a five year old L'equip Visor and I'm overjoyed, especially after being nervous about all of these poor reviews. I'm new to juicing so I don't have anything to compare this juicer to. But I will say that so far, the product has far exceeded my expectations. It juiced greens, carrots and apples beautifully and I love the quality of the juice. Its so refreshing. The product is easy to assemble, disassemble and to clean. I love how quiet it is. I can get up early in the morning to juice and won't disturb anyone. I expected it to be messy and for the pulp to get into the juice cup - but neither of those problems occurred. If I experience any problems in the future, I'll update my review.
Nice enough to leave on the counter March 8, 2008
B. A. Sjoblom - Chyatte (Atlanta)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have both the Champion Juicer and this L'Equip Juicer. I have to say for juicing carrots I prefer the Champion because its fast, yet it heats up my carrots causing a loss in nutrients; however, for wheatgrass and anything else this L'Equip Juicer is better for it masticates slowly which leaves all the vital nutrients. I love all the attachments for you can make ice-cream or sorbet from frozen fruits, nut butters, grind grains and make pastas from fresh dough. It is also attractive enough to leave out on the counter.
best i have used December 8, 2004
jp (usa)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have had all the various juicers and this one is a work horse performed so well I have given away all the other juicers I used
It is the only single gear juicer that the auger is offset to accomodate carrots and other vegetables the other single gears cannot accomodate because the auger is directly under the feed tube
A+++++++++++++++
 I've had it for five years *update* December 1, 2005
6sensesfeeling5 (San Francisco, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
...and I'm a fan, but I still can't recommend it (to US customers, at least). As a convert from a centrifugal juicer, I'm more than pleased with the amount and quality of juice that I've gotten from the Visor. It runs quietly and doesn't create too much friction which would warm and spoil the juice, and it also assembles, disassembles and cleans up easily.
I have only made juice and frozen banana "ice cream" with it (yummy!), so I can't speak for the pasta attachments or anything else. I do think it could have been designed better -- the catch bowls aren't terribly efficient, pulp does tend to drop into the juice bowl and if you don't line them both up just right you get juice all over the counter, and the juice bowl/cup is tough to pour from -- but I've gotten used to them and they suffice. The quality of the juice and ease of cleaning are my main concerns, and these are both more than satisfactory.
The reason I can't recommend the Visor is the lack of customer support. About two years after my initial purchase, I needed to replace the strainer (due to a design flaw, in my opinion) and it took me more than six months to track down a US distributor that could send me one. Now, almost three years later, I am again in need of a replacement part. The distributor I used previously has vanished, and all contact information I find for L'Equip in the US leads me to dead end after dead end. I'm now trying to contact UK distributors. This all speaks well for the motor, which lives up to its six year warranty, having lasted just fine through five years of moderate use, but the plastic parts wear out more quickly and inevitably need to be replaced. If you live in the US and would rather not trash a perfectly good juicer motor in a couple years because you can't replace one simple plastic part or another, I recommend you look elsewhere.
Shame.
*UPDATE*
9/23/08 If you currently own a Visor and need parts, they are available from the Kitchen Resource website. There's no parts info on the site, and I got a bit of a runaround trying to contact anyone, but once I got ahold of the right people they were quite courteous and my replacement arrived quickly.
As for the juicer, it is still performing well. Even with the hassles I've had with parts, I will miss it when the motor finally goes (although it shows no signs of slowing down yet!).
 Pros and cons July 2, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
My experience with the L'Equip Visor 509 which I have been using for approximately 6 months is mixed. It has an attractive appearance, with an attached cover, a compact footprint, and a 6 year guarantee. I have not used any other juicing processors so I can not compare quality of product however there are some design issues that need to be addressed. The unit comes with two catch bowls that mate nicely together underneath the juicer body, but the pulp frequently falls in the juice catch bowl, especially if it is soft. This could have been easily avoided if the juice nozzle had been slightly longer.I tried making the banana ice cream and it was quite good, however I found the noodle attachments useless. It is impossibly slow with only three openings, and the "noodles" entwine and stick together as they come out. I used flour, perhaps semolina would work better if you want those kinds of noodles, but don't buy this unit for the noodle or spaghetti nozzles or the nut butter nozzle which produces a rough, granular material, is very slow and the ground nuts do not get smoother when mixed with oil. The removable parts of the unit are easy to clean, however I've had a big problem with back leakage where the juicer body fits into the motor body. The juice dribbles onto and into the unit, gets behind the clamping ring attachment and associated parts and screws and is virtually impossible to clean, creating a very unhygienic situation with the residue drying inside and behind motor body parts. When I mentioned this to someone at the company they told me it could be dismantled and be cleaned. Gathering tools, fiddling with tiny Philips screws, pulling apart the mechanism, cleaning each piece and the unit case and then figuring the right way to put it all back together again, is just not practical each time you use the unit.
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