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it seems that UV coating is getting on the shafts somehow and eventually creeps into the grippers and cures rendering the grippers to freeze. We just bought a new type of coating cleaner that we are going to apply to the affected shafts every week to see if this resolves the problem. Why is...

Hey George, yes I made my supervisor aware of that very thing. but the press would not run due to sheets tearing in the delivery. This was the only way To get them free. I advised them to get KBA to reset them.

Has anyone experienced frozen grippers on the transfer gripper bar just before the coater and the coater impression cylinder itself? If so how did you correct the problem and prevent it from happening again. My solution is to loosen each gripper and slide it to one side to clean the shaft of...