Owner manual

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Trouble Shooting Air Spinmaster
Troubleshooting
Continued on next page.
Symptom Remedy
Actuate the Door Valve To Grip the
Pipe and nothing happens. (Con-
tinued)
The Spinner Rotates the Pipe
Slower Than Normal and Torque is
Insufcient.
37. Make sure that the lubricator is full and is me-
tering oil to the air motor. Do this by turning off
the main Power Pack valve, removing the main air
hose from the Power Pack to the Spinmaster and
turningthemainvalveonagain.Airshouldow
into the atmosphere with a very light oil mist that
would coat your hand. Now check the lubricator
drip adjustment. If the air lubricator is not func-
tioning correctly, rust could disable the air motor.
See Air Lubricator Adjustment Maintenance page
32 .
Make sure the Power Pack main air valve is fully
open. See Power Hook-Up pg.11.
Make sure that the air supply (volume and Pressure)
fromtherigsourceissufcienttogetmaximum
performance from the main Spinmaster motor
(250-300 scfm @100 psi).
Make sure that the air hose from the rig air supply
to the Spinmaster Power Pack is at least 1 1/4"
in size (1 1/2" air hose gives best performance
especially when the supply hose is longer than 25
foot) or the Spinmaster air motor will starve for
air. See Power Hook-up pg.11. In addition, any
ttingsthatareontheairsupplyhosetothePower
Packmusthaveequalorgreaterowcapacityas
the supply hose.
TheairlteronthePowerPackmaybeclogged.
See Changing Air Filter Element pg.33.
ThemuferontheSpinmasterairdrivemotorcould
berestrictingtheairowthroughthemotor.
Cleanorreplacethemufer.Forpartnumbersee
Drawings pg.48,52.
The gripping pressure output on the Power Pack
could be set too high. For proper adjustment, see
Adjusting Grip Pressure pg.34.
The drive rollers could be touching one another