"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Picking up a '92 locally first thing in March. I'm pumped. The press is in amazing shape considering it's age, insane deal and even has a no shirt detector. The Omron microprocessor is fine from my inspection, it's a simple issue with the sensor that signals it to start the next cycle when the carriage drops/raises. Once again reviving this thread in the interest of keeping a lot of info on these machines in one place. mk, and others, you mentioned having a certain set of parts on hand at all times. Care to post and share that list here? I'm lucky in that I have a spare mosier indexer cylinder and a couple of spare carriage bumpers, etc. coming with the machine but I'm sure there's much more to acquire for backup. The only 3 upgrades I'm planning on making, right out of the gates are: putting kip levers on all squeegee/flood angle adjustments, installing air squeegee and flood clamps and, here's the one that may/may not be possible...As to parts, Bill Foust bought out Rick at Aero. Handle is danilsade. As to the other issue....call....you know who....Winston. 904-343-0848...has anyone reworked one of these to allow the squeegee and flood bars to lift at rest, rather than maintaining pressure on the screen all the time? If I go down that road of installing new valves to allow this I'll probably also want to program it to flood at rest rather than flooding after the dwell is complete. Not necessary for wb on an auto if you are moving fast enough but would be very, very nice to have. And one more ?: it looks like I have room to fit my 25x30 M3s in this press but it looks close, anyone run 25" wide on these. I know that the max length is 31" and can always buy new 23x31 rollers with the cash I'm saving but would rather just use our current stock.
...has anyone reworked one of these to allow the squeegee and flood bars to lift at rest, rather than maintaining pressure on the screen all the time? If I go down that road of installing new valves to allow this I'll probably also want to program it to flood at rest rather than flooding after the dwell is complete. Not necessary for wb on an auto if you are moving fast enough but would be very, very nice to have.
Congratulations man, 'bout friggin time!