Strapping Tool Maintenance and Repair

 


Proper maintenance of all packaging equipment and tools is crucial to maximizing your uptime and keeping your costs low. With the right maintenance strategy and support from our experts at Quick Pask Service, you can drastically reduce unplanned downtime, keep your costs low, lengthen the service life of your tools, and maximize your profits.

Battery-powered strapping tools are an important and integral part of your business. These hand tools are efficient and ergonomic solutions for all kinds of strapping applications. While wear and tear, breakdowns, and maintenance issues are inevitable, proper upkeep of your strapping tools is essential to maximizing your uptime and ensuring that they are functioning their best.

Preventive Maintenance: This should be a no-brainer, but it is always worth mentioning because it is the single most important thing in maintaining the health of your tools: CLEAN YOUR STRAPPING TOOLS! Blowing the tool out daily (yes, daily) with compressed air is a great way to reduce strap debris. Also, be sure to remove any large pieces of strap debris as often and as quickly as possible! When you are cleaning your strapping tools, it is important to use either a nylon bristle or even a strip of strap to remove debris. Never use metal cleaning instruments on these tools as it can cause some serious damage!

Most strapping tools have a removable side panel that gives you direct access to the feed wheel. This allows you to remove any stuck debris from the teeth of the feed wheel, or the lower grabbers and the lower jaw, and helps to prevent the strap from slipping inside the tool. This also allows you to do a light inspection, re-lubricate if necessary, and keep the tool in tip-top shape, preventing any unnecessary repairs.

Strapping tools are built extremely well and, in most cases, they are resilient to some minor drops and damage. However, it is important to remember that there is complex machinery inside of these tools that must be protected and handled with care. Tools being dropped is one of the most common reasons for a tool being brought in for repair at Quick Pak Service. Upon inspection, we typically find wear items that need to be replaced, but it is the drop that causes the most damage. Keeping these tools safe, secure, and on a sturdy surface will help to prevent any unnecessary repairs.

Additionally, it is extremely important to never run the tool without any strap in it! This causes the feed wheel to wear against the lower grabbers. When this happens, both components become worn and may need to be replaced prematurely.

When your tool comes into Quick Pak for service, we will first test it extensively to pinpoint the exact problem and generate a quote for the repair. Once approved, we will not only repair your tool, but we will also give it a good clean, re-lubricate everything, and reassemble it for another round of testing. You can trust that when your tool gets back to you, it will be back to working order.

Quick Pak Service we are here every step of the way, providing packaging equipment tools, installation, service, and of course, repairs. Call us at 813 242 6995 or reach sales@quickpakinc.com

Location: Tampa, FL 33610, USA

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