Really not a good idea to manually activate the hydraulic valves on any fully automatic perfector like an SM52. Reason, because there is a 4th hydraulic piston that activates the drive clutch for the perfector positioning motor. This clutch has pins in it that line up only one way. Activating this clutch in the wrong position will force these pins into the oposing clutch half under hydraulic pressure, almost 1500psi. This will almost certainly damage the clutch. Anytime you get the message to set press back to straight printing, there is a couple things the operator needs to do. First go to the printing material screen and press the green check mark if it is lit. The press may move slightly. Next use the hand crank to manually turn the press in the forward direction (counterclockwise on SM52). The press should turn easily at first and eventually lockup. Remove the hand crank and pull out the spindle. Go back to the printing material screen and the green check mark should be lit once again. Press the green check, once for the saftey beep and again to move the machine. It may not look like the press is moving but the perfector is recalibrating itself. If you go to the unit before the perfector you will see it moving extremely slowly. Wait for this process to finish, usually 2 or 3 minutes. Once it is completed you should be good to go. If the problem continutes than likely you have a sensor out of position or not working at all. This process will at least allow you to run the machine in straight printing.