Hi ya'll...

     I've been beatin' my head against the wall for the last couple of days
with my wave solder machine, it's a Soltech Prisma and the conveyer keeps
jamming. What it's doing is up at the exit end where the drive motor is, the
chain keeps wrapping itself around the drive sprocket and jamming...this is on
the backside rail, the frontside rail is fine. The first time it happened I
had to take the rail down to get the chain from around the sprocket, and then
I inspected the chain and it looks fine. I put the chain and rail back
together, checked the tension, started the conveyer slowly and started putting
the fingers back on that had come off when I took the rail down. I almost had
all the fingers back on and the *#!%&#$ thing jammed again! I went thru the
same drill a SECOND time, looked over everything to see if I could see
something that me give me a clue why it keeps jamming like that, but can't see
anything out of place. So I once again started the conveyer slowly and started
replacing the fingers, and guess what? It did it AGAIN!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! (There, there, now Steve....Calm down, it's only a
machine) I know Steve, but it's just doing this just to piss me off...on a
Friday no less. (See? It's got me talking to myself! Ever have one of those
days?)

     Has anybody ever had this happen to them? I don't mean getting so goofy
that you're talking to yourself, I mean have your Soltec conveyer keep jamming
like that? (everybody talks to themselves don't they? Or is it just me?)

    Anyways, I've had enough tonight...I'm coming in tomorrow to deal with
this beast...maybe I'll have a few tips from ya'll. BTW, Soltec manuals SUCK!
(I had to say that!)

    On a lighter note; here's a funny that was sent to me...brightest thing
that happened to me all day:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto walked into a bar and sat down to drink a beer.
After a few minutes, a big tall cowboy walked in and said Who owns the big
white horse outside? The Lone Ranger stood up, hitched his gun belt, and said,
I do...Why? The cowboy looked at the Lone Ranger and said, I just thought
you'd like to know that your horse is about dead outside…

The Lone Ranger and Tonto rushed outside and sure enough Silver was ready to
die from heat exhaustion. The Lone Ranger got the horse water and soon Silver
was starting to feel a little better.

The Lone Ranger then turned to Tonto and said; "Tonto, I want you to run
around Silver and see if you can create enough of a breeze to make him start
to feel better." Tonto said; "Sure, Kemosabe!" and took off running circles
around Silver. Not able to do anything else but wait, the Lone Ranger returned
to the bar to finish his drink.

A few minutes later, another cowboy struts into the bar and asks; "Who owns
that big white horse outside?"

The Lone Ranger stands again and claims;  "I do, what's wrong with him this
time?"

The cowboy looks him in the eye and says; "Nothin'…but you left your injun
runnin"

-Steve Gregory-

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