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System Bleeding
WARNING
To reduce the risk of serious burns, always wear
eye protection, gloves, and protective clothing
when working around hot melt equipment and hot
melt materials.
Follow the procedure below for bleeding the system.
1.
Make sure the air motor isolation ball valve is
closed.
2.
Lock the dispense valve trigger open by pulling
and securing the trigger using the handle ring
(Fig. 23), or open the outlet valve on an automatic
system.
Fig. 23
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3.
Place the dispense valve over a waste container.
4.
SLOWLY
open the air isolation ball valve located
on the lower right of the ram control (Fig. 20).
5.
Bleed the system until a smooth flow of material
dispenses from the valve.
6.
Close the air motor ball valve, close the dispense
valve.
NOTE:
The system is now ready to operate.