Racer85

Just recieved my cutter last week and been using it a little. Well here is the deal I was in the sign business for ten years, so I have got experience with Roland's, Vinyl Express, and a little bit of graphtec cutters. I sold out my share of the business and purchased a p-cut to do my little side projects. I am having a little trouble getting used to the quality of these cutters and I am looking at ways to make it a little more user friendly. Here are my questions, has any body tried connecting the pinch rollers together with a piece of 1/4" key stock and putting a handle on it so you can engaged and disengage the rollers at the same time? Does anybody have any suggestions on making the media load and move past the trimming groove any smoother. And also are these machines normally very noisy while cutting (besides the fan). Any suggestions or help are appreciated.