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Trouble Shooting Guide
The ready light will not come on after 55 minutes, so the motor will not run even though
the adhesive is melted.
This is very rare, but can happen the first time you use Maxit due to a thermostat in the
machine being impacted during shipping.
A slight adjustment is needed on the motor thermostat. Contact your local dealer and
they will email you the instructions. Once you make the correct adjustment, you should not
need to do it again.
The adhesive is melting, but not getting hot enough.
Not enough power coming into the Maxit due to too many items plugged into the same
outlet or using a poor grade extension cord. Also, make sure the temperature knob has not
been moved to the left, lower than the 11:00 position.
Remove other items from outlet. Also see if you can plug directly into outlet instead
of using the extension cord. If you must use a cord, it needs to be heavy gauge.
Smoke coming out of adhesive in tray or very strong odour.
The Maxit is running too hot. It is not unusual for the Maxit to run hotter in your
premises than in our quality control room due to voltage variations. Also, running the motor for
long periods of time will heat up the adhesive significantly.
turn the temperature knob slightly to the left. If you are at the 1:00 position, turn it to
12:00. If at 12:00, turn to 11:00. The Maxit takes around 30 minutes to reset the overall
temperature.
One of the major reasons for poor coating is the adhesive being too low in the tray. There are
two steps in the front, left of the tray with the bottom step being the “add” level and the top the
“full” level. You must keep the adhesive well above the add level and up to the “full” level as
much as possible. This is the first thing you should check.
The first ½ of the paper comes out with a good coating, but the last ½ is streaky.
The adhesive level in the tray is too low. Also your coater may be on an unlevel surface
so the back of the machine is higher than the front. The adhesive level in front looks full, but
there is less adhesive in the back under the coating roller so it does not pick up enough
adhesive.
Level the front of the coater by placing shims under the front feet
