I have read all reviews on this product and I guess I have been pretty lucky in that : It never NEVER has leaked, I mainly do carrots and using the flat side of butter knife on back side of screen under COLD water is best, if you use warm water, the root material will expand and stay in more difficult. I LOVE this juicer and since I need to start eating better, juicing and using blender with yogart and blackbeery and blueberry bannana smoothies gives me my daily fruit and fiber added and protein pwder.....I like it so well I plan on buying a couple more as I usually am done Christmas shopping by November. If you do something like carrots and other root veggies and like fruit as well like a V8 Frusion, do your fruit after root veggies and will push and lubricate the root materia stuck in and make it come out or easier. For exrra healthy tips: Use the pulp, esp from carrots, to add to bannana bread or zukini or basic carrot bread but you can eliminate alot if not all the flour for a rather dense fiber muffin and add frozen berries to the muffins in pan before putting in oven so it is a more fresh berrie rather than mush. Potato fiber/mush is a great way of making hash browns that are more like potato pancakes or latkes (SP?) orange and any fruit, the juice emulsified with fiber makes jam, and can be Kosher by not using gelatin but non-animal gelatin found in same place in grocery lemons juiced and the waste is good for putting on fish while baking, be creative since it did not come with any recipe book, reason I gave it one less star.