Lubricating the Carrier

Overview

The running surfaces of the upper two and lower two rollers of the Lexium™ MC12 carrier and the running surfaces of the rails must be lubricated.

This is done by an upper and a lower lubrication pad. The pads are supplied with lubricant by two reservoirs in the carrier. The reservoirs must be filled regularly.

Refer to the Maintenance Plan.

NOTE: Also refer to Information About Lubrication and Information About Replacing Parts of the Carrier.

For how to replace the lubrication pads, refer to Replacing the Lubrication Pads of a Carrier.

Filling the Lubrication Reservoirs

The lubrication reservoirs of the Lexium™ MC12 carrier must be filled before first use and refilled as necessary. This can be done both with the carrier mounted on the rail or removed from the rail.

If the lubrication nipples are covered by a tool mounted on the carrier, you must disassemble the tool.

NOTE: Exposed or uninstalled carriers must have the protective cover of the drive magnets installed at all times. The cover is only removed at the time of carrier installation.

Step

Action

1

If removing the carrier from the track to fill the lubrication reservoirs, install the protective cover (7) of the drive magnets by sliding it onto the magnets if it is not already installed. Refer to Removing the Protective Cover of the Drive Magnets.

A Lexium™ MC12 carrier has four lubrication nipples (1–4) to fill the two lubrication reservoirs. The upper lubrication reservoir (5) is filled by lubrication nipple 1 or 2, the lower lubrication reservoir (6) is filled by lubrication nipple 3 or 4.

2

Press the nozzle of a single-hand lubrication gun in a right angle against one of the lubrication nipples (a) and inject the lubricant.

3

Fill the lubrication reservoir with lubricant.

NOTE: Verify that you do not overfill the reservoirs.

4

Proceed in this way to fill the upper and the lower lubrication reservoirs.