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Site conducted
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Conducted on
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Prepared by
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Location
Blow Mold Start Up & Restart
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At Machine Screen (HMI) Clear any/all Alarms that are shown
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Turn on Hydraulic Power (temp should reach between 80 - 100 degrees) before starting machine
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Cycle Swing Arms 3 to 5 times to ensure fingers opening and closing in right locations
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While cycling swing arms, make sure cooling bed and trimmer running, if not check and move to correct position (from Manual to Automatic)
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Turn on Extruder
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Make sure plastic/parison coming from all heads as evenly as possible
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After parisons reach cooling bed plate, push Cycle Start button
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When molds close, pull parison/purge off of cooling bed with hook pole and move aside to cool
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Monitor tail lengths on next several shots and if necessary, hold Charge button to ensure tails are long enough for swing arm fingers to grab
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If you have a second person helping you, have them check the cooling bed for mis-aligned bottles and clear them and either grind bottles off the cooling bed or run into the Regrind buckets
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Run bottles through Trimmer after tails look good and you think they'll trim (3 to 5 shots at least)
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Monitor tail lengths, bottle drops to cooling bed and trimming for several minutes before moving on to next start up or task
