Maintenance And Cleaning; Routine Maintenance And Cleaning; Dismantling The Machine - VARES Fruit SHARK Original Instructions For Use

Fruit Crushers SHARK Fruit

9 Maintenance and cleaning

Regular and correct maintenance is one of the conditions that affect the safety, correct functioning and
service life of the machine. Insuffi cient and irregular maintenance may cause increased costs of repairs and
inadequately long shutdowns of the machine. The machine has been designed and made in such a way that
it is easy to clean with a minimum need for machine parts to be dismantled.
Caution! All activities stated in this chapter need to be performed only after the machine
Notice: Pressure water or steam must not be used for cleaning the crusher!
Notice: When the machine is being cleaned, the crusher must not be turned "upside down" as water
or juice may leak into the vent holes in the motor housing and subsequently into the motor
brake. Pressure water or steam must not be used for cleaning the crusher!
When carrying out maintenance and inspection of the machine observe, in addition to the safety instructions
given in this manual, also the requirements of generally applicable safety regulations!

9.1 Routine maintenance and cleaning

• Every time before starting to work check the condition of the insulation of the fl exible cord for
mechanical damage or whether it is not pulled out of the bushing and check the condition of the plug
of the fl exible cord as well.
• If you use a fl exible extension cord, check the condition of the insulation and the condition of the
plug/socket combinations as well.
• Before beginning to work always check whether all screwed joints on the machine are tightened.
• Keep both the external and internal space of the machine clean. Clean the crusher every time after
use according to point 9.2 of this manual – paragraph "Procedure for cleaning the machine".
• Before putting the crusher out of operation for a prolonged period of time, clean the internal space of
the crusher and preserve its individual parts with oil, when dismantling the upper part of the crusher
proceed according to point 9.2 of this manual – paragraph "Procedure for cleaning the machine".

9.2 Dismantling the machine

To gain access to the working mechanism of the machine, proceed according to the following instructions:
• Loosen and unscrew the screw connecting the upper and lower part of the crusher.
• Dismantle and remove the upper part of the crusher, whereby the cutting disc is made accessible.
• Loose the centre airscrew, take off the bearing plate and remove fruit remains from the parts.
Procedure for cleaning the machine
Carry out the cleaning of removed parts No. 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 25 and 4 (see the detailed drawing of the
crusher) cleaning of the above parts removed from the machine at a suffi cient distance from the crusher (in
no case may water or preparations used for cleaning these parts leak into the motor housing, vent holes
or even the machine motor).
First of all remove carefully all solid remains after crushing. Wash the removed upper part of the crusher
(position 2 in the detailed drawing of the machine) as well as the removed bearing plate (position 9)
including the blade (position 10) and ejection blades (position 11) and airscrew (position 25) properly with
has been disconnected from the mains and an off-state of the electrical equipment
of the machine has been secured by pulling the plug of the fl exible cord from the
mains socket.
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