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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: mimosatexas on October 26, 2018, 10:33:23 AM

Title: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: mimosatexas on October 26, 2018, 10:33:23 AM
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?
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: Homer on October 26, 2018, 10:41:29 AM
yes.....yes you can...... :-X
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: Gilligan on October 26, 2018, 02:42:30 PM
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.
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: mimosatexas on October 27, 2018, 01:11:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: mk162 on October 27, 2018, 01:22:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: Gilligan on October 27, 2018, 01:29:43 PM
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.
Title: Re: Safety Cable Broken?
Post by: mimosatexas on October 27, 2018, 01:42:10 PM
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.