MC-FLEX Videos
How to Drain your Air Compressor
Prevents air cylinders speed from changing and helps prevent flow controls becoming inoperable
Setting Cylinder Speeds
Learn how to change the speeds of the air cylinders on your machine
Leak Testing a Cylinder
Can diagnose a bad air cylinder. Bad air cylinders will extend and or retract inconsistently.
Cleaning and Lubricating a Cylinder
Keep your cylinders from going bad, learn how to clean and lubricate them
Flipping the Cap shedder plate
This can extend the life of a cap shedder plate that is starting to get worn out. This can fix inconsistent lid dropping and lid jamming
Switching between Can sizes
Teaches you how to adjust the machine to run different size cans
Polishing a Chuck
Fixes cans getting stuck on the chuck and causing jamming in the seamer
Setting Operation Heights
Fixes incorrect seam heights, can even fix motor stalling while seaming
Replacing UNSEALED Seamer Bearings
Fixes a loud seamer and can fix inconsistent seams. ONLY for machines still using unsealed bearings. If you have a grease zerk on the front of the seamer block and grease the bearings then your bearings are UNSEALED
Aligning the Machine and Infeed
Teaches you how to properly align your infeed to the machine. This is only for older machines using a shaft to drive the infeed
Operation Tooling Teardown
Fixes the operation not spinning. Please do not preform the actions in this video unless specifically instructed by a technician
Replacing a Float on a Gen 1 filler
Fixes a float that is stuck on or off regardless of fill level
Setting the Cap Shedder Speed
Can fix the cap shedder shedding two lids when only one should have been shed
Adjusting Infeed Index and Agitator for Air Driven Agitator
Fixes cans not getting unstuck and inconsistent index's into the rinser
Adjusting for 88 Gauge Lids
Confirm you have 88 gauge lids before preforming the actions in this video. If you do have 88 gauge lids this will fix jamming and lids not shedding.
Calibrate Your Touchscreen
Fixes an inaccurate touch screen that is not picking up touch inputs accurately
Replacing Your Infeed Deck
Instructs you how to replace your infeed deck, important if it needs machining to fit a date coder
Installing a Sneed Printer
A modified deck plate may be required to install a sneed printer. Contact a microcanner technician for more information
Replacing the Lift Puck Cylinder
Fixes a lift puck cylinder that is leaking and or raising or lower too slowly
Replacing Cap In Place Sensor
Fixes a sensor that is not sensing a lid even when a lid is placed directly on the sensors tip
Replacing Cap Shedder Sensor
Fixes a sensor that is not reliably seeing a lid in front of it even after a cleaning
Replacing a Float on a Gen 2 Filler
Fixes a float that is stuck on or off regardless of fill level
Replacing the Filler Lift Cylinder
Fixes a leaking filler lift cylinder that may not be smoothly raising and or lowering
Replacing the Filler Ready Sensor
Fixes a fill sensor that is not sensing even with a can on the tip of the sensor
Replacing the PLC
Some plc failures will result in an error light being displayed, other failures can be a output on the plc itself being stuck on or stuck off
Replacing the Safety Relay
Fixes motor power and safe power not turning on even though all power is secured on the safety relay
