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my press a pm/qm46 has done 48million and is on its 3rd water form. what do you mean water form is tarnished? the rubber form or the hard metering roller?

The bearings are known to fail on the metering roller on PU2? release the pressure and see if there is any play.

As they don't move once they have appeared I still believe it's blanket related & if I'm completely honest I think at the time I was also guilty of using very harsh solvents in the blanket wash up device. I only use Pronto Plus now.

You wont see the red screws unless you set the rollers to the plate with sf02

I suppose someone should ask, do the spots move?

I had what looks like the identical problem, I have a QM & a PM 46. It was the blanket in my case, I didn´t know till I put another blanket from the same source on my other machine and it started doing the same thing.

I bet a lot of AB Dick users in the UK remember an Engineer who moved these on his own with a sack barrow & a tail lift, brings back memories.

I have a QM46 & a PM46, if your quality expectations are quite high I have seen much better results achieved on a Ryobi 3302. I can easily colour change a QM46 in half an hour for an acceptable full colour letterhead in half an hour, but I would not attempt a full colour A4 leaflet on Gloss art.

Try Stan, Intermountain Press Service, llc. 720-285-9485 He might have a used one, he seems very helpful.

Open top plate guard, open front door, turn handle till plate eject light flashes & then push plate eject button. Machine should be reset now.

I'd pay a bit more for a PM46, I've got both a PM46 & a QM46. I run 2 machines at the same time and the PM feed to me is definitely better.

Take it out of the machine & stripe it by eye on a flat bench.

Funny! Hi, I bought a 3302H as second machine to avoid wet trapping, but I sold it a bought a second QM, I just run the pair at the same time. I'm the opposite to you I couldn't see how you could make any money using the Ryobi on low end jobs. I don't know how your finding it here in the...

Try a little tack reducer, my QM does this sometimes.

Bulb look on Ebay 30V festoon bulbs, plenty to choose.

Scales For 20 years I've used a set of cheap digital scales accurate to .01 of a gram available on ebay. For small mixes I still use them instead of my Pantone scales.

Have you tried asking Roland @ pressparts in Loughton Essex?

That made me smile,:cool:

A quote from the Vanson guide, Pantone 221 "Caution: Many of Van Son’s colours are made using coloured pigments not found in the PANTONE Basic Colours. For example, Van Son Bordeaux Red is made from a unique pigment having spectral reflection features that cannot be exactly duplicated...

FFR428 has given you some good advice. If you are in this for the long haul I'd bite the bullet and find someone like him locally to print a few jobs with you, they'll show you how to stripe everything up & a few tricks.