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SECTION 4—REMOVING AND REPLACING OF UPPER PLATE
CONTINUED:
To replace the Upper Plate:
1) Hold the Upper Plate over the Middle Plate and insert the 3 wires into the hole from which they were
removed. See Figure 10 on previous page.
2) Begin lowering the Upper Plate onto the Middle Plate. Looking at the bottom side of the Upper Plate,
locate the projection coming down from the Cutter Blade Linkage. This projection must match up with the
circle at the end of the Movable Blade. If necessary move the Movable Blade to match with the projection.
See Figure 6 in Section 2.
3) Once this is lined up, lower the Upper Plate until it is sitting properly on top of the Middle Plate. This may
take a little twisting to have everything line up properly.
4) Tighten the 6 screws that were loosened when removing the Upper Plate. See Figure 10 on the previous
page.
5) Follow Step 12 in Section 2 of this manual to release the Movable Blade Holding Spring and put pressure
onto the Movable Blade.
6) Re-install the Micro-Switch and connect the wires. The wire marked R1 goes to the “Normally Open”
terminal (this is the terminal next to the empty terminal), and the wire marked R3 goes to the “Common”
terminal (this is the terminal offset from the other ones)
7) Re-install the ground wire.
8) Re-install the Switch Lock Lever Spring Assembly, making sure that the long leg is resting against the
Switch Lock Lever. To add pressure, take the short leg of the Switch Lock Lever Spring and using a long
nose pliers push it towards the back of the machine so that it rests against the post from which it was
removed.
Suggestion:
Only screw the Spring Lock Lever Assembly about half way into the machine.
Then reset the short leg of the Spring Lock Lever Spring and once it is set complete the tightening of the
screw.
9) Replace the Segment Gear and Feeding Roller per the instructions in Section 3. Skip steps 4 and 5 as they
are addressed in this section of the manual.
10) Re-install the Tie Feeding Roller with Bushing making sure it is in the proper orientation. There is a split
in the Bushing which should be facing up.
11) Re-install the Tie Feeding Roller Arm. Make sure that the projection located at the front of this arm is
inserted into the center hole of the Tie Feeding Roller with Bushing.
12) Re-install the Top Cover per the instructions in Section 1.
