Signode Little David LD16AE 2.0 Operator's Manual page 22

Loading Bottom Tape:
1. Grab rear rollers
2. Grab front shaft of cartridge.
3. Raise rear of cartridge and move cartridge up and out of machine.
4. Threading is same as top cartridge.
5. Grab the cartridge by rear roller and front shaft, angle front of cartridge onto
mounting bolts and then lower rear of cartridge.
Before doing any of the following steps, turn power off to the machine. Safety gates must be
open. Immediately before a roll of tape has run out, a new roll of tape should be spliced on. The
splicing method described here is preferable and much simpler.
Splicing procedure:
1. With a pair of scissors, cut tape on expiring roll. Remove butt roll of tape from tape
core.
2. Remove cartridge from head.
3. Install a new roll of tape on tape core with tape feeding clockwise.
4. Splice a ½" lap to cut end with trailing edge of old tape on top.
5. Pull splice completely through cartridge; cut splice off.
6. Replace cartridge.
Reloading of tape:
1. Push tape roll onto tape core with tape feeding counterclockwise. Tape
roll should be pushed to the back of the tape core.
2. Fold back about 12" (304 mm) of tape and stick it to itself to form a leader. Thread
tape as shown in tape threading diagram. There is also a threading decal located on
the frames of the top and bottom cartridges.
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