Having 3 big cats made me look if the cleaning of the cat litter could be done automatically. The Litter robot III seemed like a perfect solution to me. However, about two or three times per week, the automatic cleaning process stopped permanently which didn’t help to keep tidy to put it mildly.
I contacted support and followed the suggestions but the problem remained. I tried this construction but that also didn’t help.
However, after reading a lot of posts on support forums I noticed a suggestion which helped: apply a bit of oil to the inner-side so the bonnet has less resistance when turning. I applied some non-sticky lock oil and it helped. However, after a couple of weeks the problem returned. Next I tried cleaning the outside of the bonnet AND the base from all those really tiny bits and again it is worked for weeks without any problems until it needed cleaning again. So in the end it seems to be a combination of using a tiny bit of non-sticky lubricant and keeping the sliding parts really clean. I hope that a future revision will add some kind of bearings as the current design seems to be quite sensitive…
Let’s hope that this is the last update about this issue.
It seems that the problem is now finally solved… (again…)…. Cheers Jules!
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