HQ Pro-sTitcher - Y-Encoder Assembly Installation (HQ Sixteen Only)

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Y-Encoder Assembly Installaon (HQ Sixteen only)
Follow the installaon guidelines below according to the scenario below (A, B, or C) which describes your
situaon best.
A. The HQ Pro-Stcher is an upgrade to a stch-regulated HQ Sixteen
1. Determine which Y-encoder your HQ Sixteen has. If
you have either of the two Y-encoders pictured at
the right (Version 2 or Version 3), you do not need to
replace the Y-encoder. However, if your Y-encoder is
dierent from the ones pictured, you have a Version
1 Y-encoder and will need to connue with steps 2
through 5 below.
2. Place the HQ Sixteen on its side. Remove the encoder
bracket mounng bolt using a 7/16-inch wrench and
removing the bolt and bracket that aach the wheel
to the rear base plate.
3. Replace the old encoder assembly with the encoder which is provided with the HQ Pro-Stcher (see
Parts List, item Q), making sure to put the wheel back in place between the nut and the base plate.
4. Tighten the bolt in place with the 7/16-inch wrench. Use the nut to ghten the wheel to the base
plate and then, while holding the nut in posion with the wrench, ghten the bolt head with another
7/16-inch wrench or nut driver to the point that the encoder bracket can sll spring up and down but
is not excessively wobbly.
5. Reposion the coil spring between the encoder bracket and the boom of the base plate. The
encoder bracket has a tab that the spring goes around and the base plate will either have a nub
built into the casng or a small plasc device designed to entrap the opposite end of the spring.
Version 3
Version 2