More suggestions for using machines made after 1965

Headnote

This article is the fifth in the SNIPS series on hand brake troubleshooting that originally appeared in 1986. This article is from September 1986.

Last month we began the second of a series of hand brake troubleshooting articles authored by Vince Bellik for machines that were made after 1965. In preceding months, Bellik put together some important troubleshooting pointers for brakes that were manufactured before 1965.

In our travels out in the field during the past month, we have received some fine comments from dealer-contractors who are owners of hand brakes on the value of this series of articles.

Vince Bellik, who has prepared these articles and furnished us with the photos, is one of the industry's most knowledgeable individuals on taking proper care of hand brakes. He had many years of experience with Dreis & Krump Manufacturing Co., and Pacific Press & Shear Co.

For Bellik's second in the series of articles on the newer hand brakes, he will be covering: clamp adjustment, bending leaf adjustment (and) clicking and snapping of the bending leaf and how to correct the problem.

Clamp adjustment

For easy operation of the clamping handle, apply only enough pressure so that the top leaf clamps the material and it cannot be moved by applying hand pressure regardless of the thickness of the material.

For clamp adjustment, here are some suggestions:

1. Release clamping handles sufficiently to allow material...