How does an auto press Air (diamondback S ) react when

[whitewater]

there i may be water in the the press.?

Does anyone have an idea? or have it happen?

Not sure about mine but its acting weird.

[3Deep]

Rob you may have to shoot a quick vid or explain a little more what's going on, if it's all air you might have to do some adjustments...on my Anatol it will run rough from time to time and I have to adjust the air flow.  If you look at your air/oiler unit it should have a cup that will hold some water if it's getting thru or just take your hose loose from the air inlet take a dry rag or something and then let the air blow into it, if the rag is moist your air dryer ain't doing it's job.

darryl 
Ps what he said below also check your compressor tank and release any water that has built up in there

[Screen Dan]

It's happened to us.  Our chiller was working but somehow the tank was accumulating water.  We drained the air tank (the amount of water in there was amazing...it's a huge tank, sure, but...still) and that fixed it.

We first noticed at the end of second shift when they would kill the air and bleed the air out of the presses.  I've seen it vary from a fine mist to actual water.

Aside from obvious rusting concerns I was told that when the water and oil in the lines mix under pressure that it becomes acidic and detrimental to seals and likely much more.

Check your bleeders.

[whitewater]

On our chiller we have an automatic drain, but we still drain let it out 2-3 times a day.

At the regulator i drained the air and there was a little water in there, thats why i was thinking that, After we print today i am draining the drain plug under the press itself.

When it indexes , right before it gets to the next station to lift the tables up it shudders a little. The platens going up is not shuddering, Its the movement right before it gets there and when it settles in before it goes up.



It could be the air pressure, but everything looks ok i guess.

[alan802]

Our lift cylinder recently started acting up and it would index, raise up then drop all of  a sudden and sort of bounce like it was trying to raise but the pressure would drop in the cylinder then fill back up very quickly.  Some of the time it would drop and not do anything else, other times it would bounce, and make a stuttering air leaking noise that was fairly loud.

There has never been a drop of water in our drain canister but the lift cylinder got contaminants in it somehow (I'm pretty sure I know how but that's another story) and caused it to fail.  I got a new cylinder then took the old one apart and saw that other than the contaminants, there was nothing wrong with the cylinder and it is good to go as a backup in case something happens to the new one down the road.  The lip/o-ring inside had no scratches or faults in it nor was there any H2O in the cylinder but the oil in it made it act like it had water in it.