Sentro Counter Failure Strip down & Fix?? 

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Ok - another hint. My wife’s machine’s counter was jumping (noticed when it skips a count). When you remove the counter, note that it is mounted on two white “poles” or sprues. The height of these affects the alignment of the small drive cog to the teeth that flick it around. On the top of these sprues was a raised burr made by the installation of the screws that retain the counter. I took about an 8mm drill bit and BY HAND twisted it against the ends of the two sprues to cut the burrs off. Replacing the counter it is now a fraction further into the machine, which causes the white tab that steadies the drive axle to push the little cog more into engagement with the “flick over” teeth. Along with some lubrication (silicone grease is best for plastic), it’s now great! Thanks for the video!

TY TY TY!! I took off the top & simply sprayed lithium grease on the counter without taking it out of the housing and that worked!! I am so grateful for this video. Thanks!!

Thanks for sharing. See lots of people complaining about the counter. You showed us it can be fixed 👏🏼👏🏼

I just got my Sentro 48 needle for my birthday last Thursday. Thank you for sharing. I have heard everything bad about the counter. So glad you showed it can be fixed.

My counter stopped working when i took the machine apart to clean. Your solution fixed it. Yay! I didn't know what I was gonna do until I watched this video. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. I just got mine yesterday. I had heard it was common for the counter to stop working but I hadn't heard about the crunching. I didn't take the whole thing apart. Just under the counter. I greased every gear and made sure everything was in it's place. After a few rounds, it quieted down and started working. So, thank you very much for this video.

I admire your fearlessness. My Sentro has the same issue. I will try to take it apart sometime now that you've shown my how.

I’ve been watching these videos today hoping to get a fix on some issues with mine. This was the most entertaining of all and I’m snickering over the same set of screwdriver set we all seem to own. 👍🏻

I just got a magnetic one and took the one from the machine out, and that made a huge difference not only in accuracy but it reduced the noise made by the machine a lot imo, like I feel like it runs a bit smoother without it

Caz your accent please. I think we all have the counter problem. I think you are an amazing lady. See the problem. Assess the problem. Fix the problem. I hope your family appreciate you because I do. You are precious. Please NO LIT Grease!!! Certain Lit will eat the plastic. Blessed day and thanks for the video. You are a joy.

Excellent video! Just got one of these.. it knits great but the counter seems to 'catch' and makes a noise.. this will give me the confidence to open it up and fix it. Thanks!

Hi there, enjoyed watching your video. It must have been a pain to undo all those screws with such a small handled screwdriver though. The the real reason I'm commenting is because I've had this problem with mine and I took it apart and I realised it didn't really need grease there's no grease used in it but if you look inside which by the way you don't have to take the bottom of the machine apart you can actually take the counter out from underneath there's a little panel over it with a single screw.But yes after fiddling around and not having any success I realised that the real reason that these counters stop working is because where the little gear wheel that sticks out from the counter, there's a piece of plastic that the Axel rests on and it has a small groove and that groove can get enlarged and makes the gear wheel sit too low down in in the plastic so all I found needed to do was just put a piece of sellotape over the notch which brings the gear wheel up more towards the gears on the actual machine and it worked a treat so I just thought I'd let you know.

Thank you!!! Such an easy fix; rather than replacing.

I had some sticking issues with counter. I sprayed a tiny bit of W-D 40 lubricant and problem solved. The numbers pop up in order.

Great video. What did you actually do to mend the counter?

I have a sentro my roll counter some times sticks and goes half way for the next number I just take a needle and move the number up so it will be right and sometimes it does good

Great Job!

Great video .

I have a new machine, I hope save it gears, which the best? machine oil or White grease for cars, and how many time I open it and clean from inside?

Fixed you are great 👍

I think you said something about you have fat fingers. Please do not worry about it. You have those so called fat fingers because you are a hard working lady. You are charming.

It was a useful video. Can you use tape yarn to see how it goes?

I wanted to do this so bad to mine but the screw on the bottom of the counter is apparently made of paper... tried to unscrew it but all I get is a bunch of metal shards on my screwdriver 😢

Is it still working? as I'm having the same issue

I am wondering is it still working

Cool

It is so close to good. Trust china to do the bare minimum instead of producing a good product.