Daily Operations
Wipe off the dust from the machine frame—the front, back, vise frame, underneath the pot, top of magazine, etc., using a rag and brush. With bellows or air hose, blow the dust out of the assembling elevator, keyboard, main drive cams, and all other places not reached with a brush, excepting the metal pot.
Clean the mold disk. Use a brass rule and rag. Remove all metal from the face and back of the mold, scraping the metal loose with the brass rule and wiping with a rag. Remove all metal from behind the mold disk.
Wipe off the mouthpiece with a rag, and scratch out the cross vents with a sharpened brass rule if they are filled or corroded.
Lubricate the locking studs. Put a small amount of graphite and cup grease mixture on the mold-disk locking studs.
Inspect the mold wipers. Examine the front and back mold wipers; see that they are in working condition. A small amount of graphite and cup grease mixture should be applied to the back mold wiper. For the front mold wiper, wet the pieces of felt in gasoline and then apply graphite until well saturated.
Inspect the knife wiper. See that it works freely up and down. Straighten or replace flag, if needed.
Inspect the pump stop lever. See that it is working.
Inspect the vise-automatic dog. See that the vise-automatic dog and the stop rod are free from metal and that they move without interference.
Apply graphite. With a very small amount of graphite on a magazine brush, rub the following:
1. Line delivery channel.
2. First elevator jaws.
3. Front side of the intermediate bar in the elevator slide top guide.
4. Slideway of the delivery.
5. Transfer-slide slideway.
6. Distributor-shifter slideway.
7. Top and front edge of the second elevator bar plate.
8. Second elevator upper guide.
9. Back and side of the second elevator lower guide.
Clean the plunger and metal pot. Clean the plunger in the cleaning box. Use a well-brush in the well. Open the holes on the side of the well, using the hook of the pot mouth-wiper. Skim the dross from the pot.
Clean the spacebands on a smooth board, using graphite. See that no metal adheres to the spaceband sleeve, and that the dark spot on the sleeve is removed.
Repair damaged matrices and spacebands.