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Photo Comparison of Old Series & New Series Pilot Presses
While adjusting this press for printing, it is important that you clean and adjust the gripper bar so that you can mount the gripper arms and easily create friskets when needed as well as use them to draw the printed sheet away from the tacky, sometimes glue-like ink on the form. It's pretty easy to take this assembly apart for cleaning, but reassembly can be confusing. The adjustment requires the proper installation of some unfamiliar parts. Hopefully, these photos and the line drawing will illustrate for you the proper way to assemble these parts.  C&P New Series 6x10 Pilot Gripper Bar & Guide Spring mounting details  267 - Gripper Bar Clamp   C&P Old Series 6x10 Pilot Gripper Bar Mounting Details Note that the gripper arm itself is pretty near vertical when the press is open like this. Just be sure to allow sufficient clearance so that they rollers do not jam on top of the grippers as they come down over the form. Once the parts are installed properly, it's a pretty straightforward adjustment to set the grippers so that they do not touch the rollers, yet give plenty of clearance to feed sheets onto the platen. When the arms are set properly, tighten the lower set screw to clamp the bar and spring firmly in place. The procedure for both presses is essentially the same, the only real difference being the look of the gripper bar clamp itself. WARNING!! - BE SURE TO CHECK ROLLER CLEARANCE!!!! Failure to do so could cause damage to the rollers as they roll down over the form. Note: Since these gripper arms are often lost, and many presses are sold without gripper arms, and they are a very helpful feature, we are fabricating new Gripper Arms for the Pilot Press. Watch here for an announcement when they are ready or contact us for details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page last updated
February 12, 2008
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