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Author Topic: Pad roller pins Fred Tucker Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Sugar Land, TX Registered: Sep 2007 posted 05-30-2009 04:54 PM                     Has anyone ever replaced just the pins on a Simplex 1060 pad roller assembly? One broke earlier today & when I was looking up the part number I noticed that just the pins could be bought. My question is what is the best method for removing the broken pin & installing the new? Surely hammering the new in would fracture it and cause it to break in a short period of time. Will a vise work or is a hydraulic press needed?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-30-2009 07:50 PM                        Press out using a small screw. New one will easily press in using a vice. Be careful to get the right pin in the right hole, since the diameters are different. I HAVE cracked the casting with the wrong one. (Wouldn't you think they would all be the same from a cost standpoint, oh, well too late to start now!) Louis  |  IP: Logged Fred Tucker Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Sugar Land, TX Registered: Sep 2007 posted 05-30-2009 07:59 PM                     lol, thanks. Glad you mentioned that because i was considering robbing peter to pay paul since i have a spare feed pad roller assembly.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-30-2009 08:31 PM                     I went out to "Harbor Fright" and got a $35.00 arbor press to press out that pin on that pad roller assembly. Lots cheaper in buying a sack of P-1447 pins than ordering the entire pad arm assembly with the pins already inserted. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-30-2009 10:49 PM                     I had one of the pins break last summer on the mid feed (holdback) assembly and used one off a Christie until the replacement arrived. It wasn't until I went to install the new one that I found out it had a concentric shaft. Set the pad height to 2 film layers thickness and away she went. Also, I didn't have any trouble pushing the broken end out of the arm once the retaining screw was loosened. This was also the first and only pin to ever break in the 14 years of use on either one of my 1060's.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-31-2009 02:36 AM                     Jeremy's talking about the eccentric front shaft on the pad roller arm and we were talking about the spring retaining pin on the back side of the arm that has to be pressed out. When I had those eccentrics break like that, I just move the solid shaft from the back to the front until I got some eccentrics in to replace.  |  IP: Logged Michael Wheable Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Leamington Spa, England Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-11-2010 04:09 AM                        Just had our pin which holds the spring break on us. So for the moment got an elastic band keeping tension on assembly into place. Where can we find the part number for the pin, please. And silly question, but can't seem to get pin out from casting. Tried hitting it out from both sides, obviously not as hard as I'd like to hit it in case the casting breaks but which side? This one got us stumped! Thanks in advance  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2010 06:29 AM                     I actually reccomend using a small drift punch to press it out via an arbor press... You could end up with a screw thats much softer then the pin itself... you could do more damage. Don't use a hammer to hammer it out. Funny... these parts on older machines never break but in return the older castings leak a whole lot more...!  |  IP: Logged Randy Bowden Expert Film Handler Posts: 146 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-12-2010 11:24 AM                     I use a 2lb hammer, a vice and taper punch to get the old one out. Then use my Flat face vice to press in the new one. If you have the tools, it's rather easy to do.  |  IP: Logged

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