I am setting up my shaper and I faced couple of issues with the process.
1) When I picked up the machine from the warehouse and when I stopped to charge my truck I found a thumb screw in the machine wrapping plastic.
After looking at the schematic of the machine, it looks like the thumb screw is item #33
What is this part and what it used for? I asked two FOG members for pictures of their machines, and one of them has the thumb screw connected and one doesn't.
I am not sure if this part is supposed to be there or not.
2)I am not sure I understand how the swing away mechanism supposed to work, but from my understanding, I am suppose to loosen the 2 kipp lever on the swing away and lift the power feeder base 4-5mm in the air so it will clear the small steel plate that supposed to help with alignment.
I was able to do that when there was just a first part of the base, but when I tired it after I finish the installation of the DC400, the swing away stay connected. What am I missing here?
Or it is simply the DC400 that weights 65KG and has a lever effect that makes it harder to pull?
Do you ever swig the PF away at all?
3)I installed the power feeder (DC400) but the wheels of the power feeder (and the feeder itself are at a slight angle). When I lowered it to the cast iron surface, one wheel touches the cast iron while the rest are 1-2mm higher. How can I adjust that?
4)Somehow I got a machine with power feeder outlet (euro 3PH plug), I didn't order this config, but I am glad it got it. This outlet should only be active once the motor is running.
Did someone try to rewire this outlet so it will work when the shaper is off but the e-stop will kill it?
My machine with the "missing?" thumb screw
Schematic:
