Thomson Neff WIESEL POWERLine WM120, Mounting And Maintenance Instructions

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0 8/41 Maintenance
8.3
8.3.1
Replacing the cover strip
Worn out cover strip still in place
All sizes
1.
Fig. 15:
Move the sliding carriage to the backward end position (movable bearing side).
2. Loosen the threaded studs on the fixed bearing housing.
Size WM40:
3. Loosen threaded studs on upper cover plate.
Sizes WM/WV 60, 80, 120:
3. Detach the leaf spring and spring holder on cover plate. Avoid bending the spring.
4. Pull the old cover strip with tensioning plate out of the fixed-bearing housing towards the
movable bearing until it is about 20 cm from the sliding carriage (
Attention
: do not pull it
through the carriage!).
Take care that the tensioning plates do not fall into the tubular section while you are
removing them from the fixed-bearing housing or cover plate.
5. Remove the old cover strip from the tubular section between fixed bearing and carriage
and remove grease from the upper side.
6. Join the old and new strips flush between carriage and fixed bearing, and connect them
with adhesive tape on the upper side.
7. Clip old and new strip into the tubular section, and move the carriage (by hand, if
possible) towards the fixed bearing, until about 20 cm of the new strip is visible at the
other end of the sliding carriage.
8. Remove the old cover strip and adhesive tape from the new cover strip, and dispose of
them in an environmentally suitable way.
9. Fasten the new covering strip in the fixed-bearing housing with tensioning plate and
threaded studs.
10. Pull the new strip on the movable-bearing side until it sits completely on the tubular
section.
11. Clip the cover strip manually into the tubular section, starting at the fixed-bearing end.
Size WM40:
12. Cut off cover strip with an overlap of 6-7 mm (depth of insertion pouch in cover plate
8 mm).
Sizes WM/WV 60, 80, 120:
12. Mount the leaf spring and the spring holder in the cover plate. Attention: the leaf spring
must be fitted bent towards the back of the unit!
13. Insert the end of the cover strip on the movable-bearing side through the cover plate
simultaneously clipping it into the tubular section, starting at the sliding carriage.
Size WM40:
13. Fasten cover strip in end plate, using the tension plate and the threaded studs.
Sizes WM/WV 60, 80, 120:
14. The overlapping end of the cover strip may be cut off.
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