Winget Crocker RP1500XD, Parts & Operation Manual

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CROKER LOADER
WIRE ROPE RENEWAL PROCEDURE
1. Place the Loader Hopper onto the hopper stops. Loosen nut from rope
anchor bolt, item 1, on one rope drum only, item 2.
2. Remove end of old wire rope from anchor bolt.
3. Fit end of new wire rope to anchor bolt and tighten nut.
4. Lay other end of new wire rope end to end with old wire rope removed in
part 2. Bind both ends together with sticky tape (electrical or masking
tape).
5. Carefully pull on the old wire rope to pull the new wire down to the
bottom of the loader hopper and around the rear axle rope pulley, item 3,
and up through the front axle rope guide, item 4.
6. Remove front axle rope retainer blocks, items 5 and 6, and slide onto the
new rope.
7. Continue to pull the wire and thread through the second rope guide, item
7, and down around the second rope pulley, item 8, and up to the second
rope drum, item 9.
8. Remove old wire from second anchor bolt, item 10, on second rope
drum, item 9, and remove tape from ends of old and new wire.
9. Fit second end of new wire to second anchor bolt, item 10, on second
rope drum, item 9.
10. Tighten anchor bolt nuts on both rope drums.
11. The new wire should now run over the front edges of both rope drums
and down to front edges of both the lower axle rope pulleys, items 3 and
8, and up the back of the rope pulleys to the rope guides, items 4 and 7,
with both rope retainer blocks, items 5 and 6, located on the section of
wire rope between the two rope guides at the back of the hopper.
12. Start and stop the loader by hand, using the start and stop buttons, and
take out all the slack of the wire rope in the raise direction (see important
note on page 30), ensuring that the wire slots into both axle rope pulleys,
item 2 and 9, and that the wire has wound evenly onto both rope drums.
Make sure the loader hopper is level and sitting on weigher track stops
before positioning rope retainer blocks, items 5 and 6, approximately 2