Just thought I would share my initial thoughts on my new US Tech laminator. I purchased it about a month ago and it has been a bit of a learning curve from what I'm use to. This is our second laminator and we have found it a bit more difficult to run than our other that we have had for over 10 years.
There are several design flaws in my opinion. The first flaw would be the height of the bottom roller in relation of the front table. The roller is about 1" above the front table making it difficult to slide the material in without the the material shooting up into the laminate. This also makes it more difficult to line the material up to ensure a straight run. I'm not sure why the bottom roller wouldn't be the same height as the front table?
The second flaw would be the hand crank. In order to raise and lower the top roller you have to make 25-35 revolutions in order to go from up to down. The cogs that control the hand crank almost seem to have been put on in the reverse position. It's pretty annoying the amount of the effort you have to put into hand cranking the roller up and down.
The third flaw in in the forward/reverse switch. The switch has a forward/neutral/reverse position all in one switch. There is no problem toggling the switch to the forward position but when toggling it back the neutral position half of the time you accidentally toggle it to the reverse position which obviously causes issues. In order to remedy this we disconnected the reverse operation.
Our machine also seems to have an issue with the motor skipping periodically. The motor doesn't run smoothly meaning there will be a small hiccup every few feet.
I will say that the machine seems to be heavy duty and built well. I was just hoping for better.
There are several design flaws in my opinion. The first flaw would be the height of the bottom roller in relation of the front table. The roller is about 1" above the front table making it difficult to slide the material in without the the material shooting up into the laminate. This also makes it more difficult to line the material up to ensure a straight run. I'm not sure why the bottom roller wouldn't be the same height as the front table?
The second flaw would be the hand crank. In order to raise and lower the top roller you have to make 25-35 revolutions in order to go from up to down. The cogs that control the hand crank almost seem to have been put on in the reverse position. It's pretty annoying the amount of the effort you have to put into hand cranking the roller up and down.
The third flaw in in the forward/reverse switch. The switch has a forward/neutral/reverse position all in one switch. There is no problem toggling the switch to the forward position but when toggling it back the neutral position half of the time you accidentally toggle it to the reverse position which obviously causes issues. In order to remedy this we disconnected the reverse operation.
Our machine also seems to have an issue with the motor skipping periodically. The motor doesn't run smoothly meaning there will be a small hiccup every few feet.
I will say that the machine seems to be heavy duty and built well. I was just hoping for better.
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