Vandercook 4T gripper foot pedal slipping

Earl K
on 16 Jan 07 (21:31)

I am trying to fix up a Vandercook 4T. When I press on the foot pedal, the pedal moves but the grippers don’t. At first I thought that the chain had stretched but when i look at the joint where the bar from the foot pedal connects to the bar that moves the chain, I can see that the joint is slipping.

I can pull on the chain and get the grippers to operate so I know they aren’t stuck.

How can I keep the joint from slipping?

Bielerpr
on 17 Jan 07 (23:23)

Earl

You might want to post this on Vanderblog

http://vandercookpress.info//vanderblog/

Someone there would certainly be able to tell you the procedure. I’ve seen this problem on Vandercook 4s before but when we tried to fix it on one of them we could not figure out how to get to the mechanism. So I’d be interested as well.

Gerald

Earl K
on 18 Jan 07 (09:51)

Gerald

Thanks, I didn’t know about Vanderblog. I just finished posting the same question there.

Earl