Since Texas Hunter is a sponsor of this site, and they command a premium of at least double what other feeders cost, would they not care that folks are frustrated with their design, having their motors burn up due to water penetration? Why should you have to rebuild and resilicone their feeders if they are the best? If people are not finding the premium cost to correlate with premium results then someone else will move in and take their customers. I would hope they would read this and work immediately to change the design or the materials used to avoid any future possibility of motor seize or burnup due to wet food. I would think a proper motor size could easily spin some moist food or even pop through a crust of old food in the corners?