Maintaining The Valve Terminal Mpa−L; Clean Or Replace Flat Plate Silencer - Festo MPA-L Series Description

5. Conversion and maintenance
5.2 Maintaining the valve terminal MPA−L

5.2.1 Clean or replace flat plate silencer

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Caution
Danger of fire by easily flammable cleaning agents.
Observe the safety regulations for handling easily
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inflammable cleaning agents.
Caution
Safety hazards
For cleaning do not use chlorinated hydrocarbons,
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e. g. trichlorethylene (TR I), but petrol or petroleum.
Note
Avoiding malfunctioning:
Dirt in the flat plate silencer can cause an increase in
pressure in exhaust ducts (3) and (5).
Clean the flat plate silencer if it is yellow/black or a dark
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colour, or replace it by a new insert.
You can then guarantee faultless functioning of the flat
plate silencer and avoid malfunctioning of the valves.
Proceed as follows:
1. Loosen the four attachment screws on the cover plate of
the silencer and remove the cover plate and flat plate
silencer from the supply plate.
2. Clean the flat plate silencer with petrol or petroleum or
replace it with a new insert.
3. Fasten the flat plate silencer only with the original screws.
Tighten them to 1.4 Nm ±10 %.
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