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ROTOR KNIFE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
1. Carefully block the rotor with a piece of wood to prevent it from turning.
2. Re-install the rotor knives onto the rotor. Do not torque the hex head rotor knife bolts fully at this point. Snug them
down from right to left. Do not overtighten.
3. Check that the heel of the rotor knife is tight up against the knife seat. Utilizing a .005 inch feeler gauge, try to insert it
between the heel of the knife and the knife seat at both ends and across the rotor knife. If the feeler gauge will not go
down between the heel of the knife and the knife seat, the knife is installed correctly.
4. Torque down the rotor bolts. Start from the right most bolt on the knife and torque down the bolts equally, working
towards the middle of the knife. Refer to page 18 for the correct torque values based upon bolt sizes and thread pitch.
After the bolts on each knife have been fully torqued, recheck with a .005 inch feeler gauge between the knife and seat
as noted above. Use the same procedure on all remaining rotor knives.
KNIFE SETTING PROCEDURE
1. Align a rotor knife with a secondary bed knife on the disintegrator. With a .005 inch feeler gauge between the rotor
and bed knife, start to adjust the bed knife into the rotor knife using the adjusting screw. During the movement of the
bed knife, slowly rotate the rotor by pulling each knife towards you and check the clearance. The proper clearance will
be established when a slight drag is felt on the feeler gauge as it is pulled between the knives. Once this clearance is
established across the entire length of a knife, partially tighten the bed knife socket cap screws. Follow this procedure
for all remaining bed knives.
2. If you find a high rotor knife, mark it and readjust to this knife.
3. Once knife adjustments are complete, equally and fully torque the bed knife socket cap screws, working from the end
towards the center of the knife. Refer to page 18 for the correct torque values based upon bolt sizes and thread pitch.
4. Recheck the clearance once the bolts have been fully torqued and reset if necessary.
5. Turn the rotor so that the knives are aligned with a primary bed knife on the disintegrator and continue with the same
procedure used to set up the secondary bed knives.
6. After the clearance setting of both the secondary and primary bed knives is complete and has been checked, turn the
rotor by hand to ensure that none of the rotor knives hit the bed knives.
7. Reinstall the screen into the screen chamber and close the machine (refer to Section PROCEDURE TO OPEN/CLOSE
THE DISINTEGRATOR, page 21).
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