I need clicker help

[DavidMillsSaddlery]

2 hours ago, Handstitched said:

@turbotexas   Is that valves ( tubes ) that I can see ?  The machine is how old ?  I used to restore vintage radios in another life so they look familiar.  Check those, pull them out and put them back in, contacts can tarnish. If they're white on the tops, they'ye stuffed.  If a radio didn't come to life, I checked the primary & secondary voltages on the coil. And paper capacitors  were notorious for drying out . Old resistors can have dry or broken contacts, fractures etc. 

But as mark842 mentioned  , rats love wire ' nom nom ' , they could well be the culprit. 

http://www.robinsandberg.nl/hydraulicpressmachines/tag/usm-clicker-press 

This is  like mine, but not new, mine is about  mid 1980's vintage, and 3 phase. RRP at the time $7,500, I bought mine from a former leather worker for $500-  But just waiting to win lotto to buy a 3ph generator, theres no 3ph power in my street, and single phase conversion is about $1200+....DOH !!! 

Hope you get your machine working well  

HS 

I kinda gave up on this thing... or put it on the back burner...

speaking of which, I’m thinking of pulling a control knob/assembly from a stove and putting it into the place where this adjuster is and see what happens! What’s the worst that could happen? Lol

I found a C model, but it’s trapped inside an old boot shop... they rebuilt the storefront and made it a single door... so they can’t get it out of the building! 

[Handstitched]

On 6/2/2019 at 9:40 PM, turbotexas said:

I found a C model, but it’s trapped inside an old boot shop... they rebuilt the storefront and made it a single door... so they can’t get it out of the building! 

That reminds me of an old  leather shop that closed  in the Perth CBD ( WA)  some years ago . It was on 3 levels. All the big machines presses etc.   were on the basement floor. Over the 40 years it was there, the rear doors  to the basement were blocked off, so the only way to get the machines out were through the front window by removing it,  on the shop / street level , using an industrial crane . 

Hope to hear some good news about your machine soon. Don't give up . I haven't given up on mine, I've had mine for around ten years , still confident I will one day use it,  just waiting to win lotto to buy a 3 ph generator. It will happen. 

HS 

[tofargon99]

I have a Hytronic Cutting Machine-Model A Service Instructions Manual

 

Hope this helps all

Hytroni cutting machine-Model A Service Instructions.pdf