Adjust Knife

1. Avoid serious injury. Wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) can help reduce chances of serious injury. Throughout this procedure, a technician is required to be inside bale chamber to complete task.

   Avoid serious injury. Do not allow any part of your body to get trapped between plunger and bale forming chamber. Serious injury can result if plunger moves unexpectedly. Verify flywheel brake is engaged before working inside bale chamber.

   
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   Knives Centered Between Counterknife
   and Precompression Chamber

   
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   A - Counter Knife

   B - Plunger Knife

   C - Lower Scrapers (2 used)

   D - Lock Nuts
   (2 used, each knife)

   E - Shims (as required)

   Eject last bale and clean bale chamber of debris.

   Verify ejector teeth are retracted fully.

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2. Distance between plunger knife (B) and counter knife (A) must be within specification.

   Plunger Knives-to-Counter Knife	Distance	1—2 mm (0.039—0.078 in.)

3. Distance is determined by shims (E).

4. Advance flywheel by hand until knives are located between counter knife and precompression chamber as shown.

5. Remove lower scrapers (C).

6. Remove lock nuts (D), remove plunger knife (B), and adjust shims (E) as required.

7. Install plunger knife (B) using lock nuts (D) and tighten to specification.

   Plunger Knife Lock Nuts	Torque	144 N·m (106 lb.-ft.)

8. Install lower scrapers (C). (See Adjust Plunger Scraper in this section.)