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



Replacing a Float on a Gen 2 Filler
Fixes a float that is stuck on or off regardless of fill level


Replacing a Float on a Gen 1 filler
Fixes a float that is stuck on or off regardless of fill level

Gen 1 Filler Pinch Cylinder Replacement
Replace a sticking cylinder or leaking pinch valve cylinder

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




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


Cap In Place Sensor Adjustment
Fixes a cap in place sensor that's not sensing can lids or that is sensing when no lid is present.


Replacing Cap Shedder Sensor
Fixes a sensor that is not reliably seeing a lid in front of it even after a cleaning


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
