If it is just the smell that bothers you ,take a small cotton ball or end of a q-tip and put a small drop of oil of peppermint on it. This will have to be placed inside of the machine where it will not interfere with the mechanism and can be retrieved at a later time. I had a rat crawl into the squirrel cage fan of my truck and die, in the hot summer. Even when the body was removed the smell was horrendous. Using the peppermint made it bearable until the smell went away. This oil can be bought in the pharmacy section of most stores.