Recent content by KGM

Is there a best practice, or easy way to splice a reel on the cutstar. Getting on ok, mixed results. New to the cut star

New rollers did the job. huge improvement. The old ones were down to 30.5 mm and 31 mm, no wonder i had problems. new ones 33mm

Hello All, just having a recent problem with my numbering unit on a GTO 46. its in great condition, all of a sudden i cant get it to number on the drive side. there is a clearance between the box and the inking rollers. i dropped them as far as they go and they still wont ink the numbers. I put...

we only have the press 2 1/2 years, never had a problem with it, i do maintain it quite well and it gets a lube and oil regularly. swing arm hasnt had any work done on it as long as we have had the machine. maybe i havent maintained that section as well as i could have. i loosened the allen...

the grippers close alright just not enough to grip the sheet. is there a way to bring them on a bit without taking out the swing arm?

thanks everyone, think ill have to get my engineer in. lubricated it quite well and left it over the weekend. still the same.

Hello all, just having an issue on my GTo single colour. 5 of the swing arm grippers wont take the sheet, the outer 3 are ok its the middle ones that wont grip. running a3 is fine, but portrait a4 wont work. the sheet is just left on the feeder. everything else seems fine. this just happened...

Thanks lwhiskars, i have decided to replace all 70 claw stands. expensive but it has to be done. They are only going to get worse and havent been changed since i have been on the press so its overdue.

Thank you for your thoughts. we bought UV dye and put it in the oil. went around the machine with a UV lamp and managed to find one big oil leak near the pump and a few other smaller ones. job done, not 100 percent fixed but a huge improvement

Hello all. My press is a Komori Lithrone 26 (1984). Recently been having problems with sheets dropping from the delivery transfer grippers especially on high coverage jobs. they tend to stick to the 4th unit blanket and cause all sorts of problems. took a look and many of them are worn and...

Hi everyone, have a 1984 komori lithrone 26 with a fairly bad oil leak, mainly around the delivery section and unit 4. I know its an old press but still, is there certain places where oil leaks are more prevelant? (on any part of the machine) any flash spots that i can check? thanks