Safety Cable Broken?

[mimosatexas]

The safety cable between head 1 and 2 is broken on our Sabre.  Seems like the break is just before the magnetic end.  Can I safely just cut that off and splice it until a new one arrives, or is there some way to just bypass the safety cables for a few days?

[Homer]

yes.....yes you can......

[Gilligan]

Just a 24v dc signal going through there.

Could probably just take the high side to ground on the first or last head and bypass it all.

[mimosatexas]

We ended up removing the broken link and unscrewing enough other cables to basically just connect heads 1 and 2 over the center of the press. Not "safe" but kept the press spinning until the new piece arrives.

[mk162]

We ended up removing the broken link and unscrewing enough other cables to basically just connect heads 1 and 2 over the center of the press. Not "safe" but kept the press spinning until the new piece arrives.

With a crew of any experience they know better than to get the middle of the press, even at idle, unless the indexer is disengaged.  I wouldn't run it regularly that way, but it's a fine fix until the parts come in.

[Gilligan]

We ended up removing the broken link and unscrewing enough other cables to basically just connect heads 1 and 2 over the center of the press. Not "safe" but kept the press spinning until the new piece arrives.

With a crew of any experience they know better than to get the middle of the press, even at idle, unless the indexer is disengaged.  I wouldn't run it regularly that way, but it's a fine fix until the parts come in.

Sabre's servo is never engaged unless it's turning.

[mimosatexas]

My crew is fine, but we have a lot of other staff who are clueless about production and they will occasionally filter by the press. That's who I worry about, lol.