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In this portion of the video I'm going to show you how to further operate the machine.
A couple of things that I want to talk about here is first and foremost, since this has
a universal motor, you are going to get an audible signal as this thing starts to work.
So you will hear the motor wind, and it's fine.
When you hear the tone of that wind change, that means it's getting stuck into something.
It could be a 90 or a bend.
It could be that it's going through mud or dirt.
It could be stuck in an obstruction.
So you know as we navigate through this just pay attention to the tone of the machine and
it'll teach you quite a few things about what you're going through as well.
Also what we're going to do is we're actually going to run the machine in reverse to get
around a bend that we know is here.
The reason for this is it's you really shouldn't run the machine in reverse when you are trying
to clear an obstruction.
What you use the reverse for is to jog it out of something where it's stuck or to go
through a difficult bend as we're going to do here or things like that, but don't clean
the obstruction with the machine in reverse because you can snap the cable.
So here we go.
We're going to make sure that our feed knob is out.
We're gonna grab some cable and as I said before you want that in the drain to make
sure that you're not going to get hurt or that anybody's going to get hurt.
Make sure you work areas clear, you have your gloves on, you have your safety equipment
on, and here we go.
So I'm going to put the machine in forward.
I'm gonna step on the foot switch.
It's gonna get quite noisy so we'll work through it.
(Drum Machine Cleaning)
Right here I'm at that point where I need to get it to go in a different direction. So I'm gonna put the machine in reverse and I'm gonna jog the machine.
And I'm gonna take a little bit of cable out as well.
(Drum Machine Cleaning)
Now that I've gotten through that, I'm going to go ahead and put the machine in forward
and continue to run it.
(Drum Machine Cleaning)
Okay so we've reached the obstruction and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show
you how to do this manually.
Once again, I'm going to back off the feed knob okay and I'm gonna run the machine manually.
Again, it's going to get noisy but pay attention to the tone of the machine and you will hear
when it winds down okay.
That means that it's actually trying to work.
Also something that needs to be noted here is we're using one of the more popular cables
this is a 3/4" inner core cable so it has a wire rope inside.
The farther out this cable is the longer it's going to take for it to actually become effective
at the tool.
Why?
Because it has to actually wind the cable up and tighten itself around that inner rope.
So it's going to take a couple seconds to do.
The farther out you are, the longer that's going to take.
(Drum Machine Cleaning)
So let's say that we've already cleaned up the obstruction out and now we're going to
bring the cable back.
So I'm going to put this in the retrieve position.
And turn thing thing on.
(Drum Machine Cleaning)
Okay I felt the cable spring back at me a little bit which means it pushed itself out
of the trap.
So I'm going to loosen the feed knob.
At that point it doesn't really matter what position that's in as long as this feed knob
is backed out.
And I'm going to pull the cable back. 0:04:55.029,1193:02:47.295 (Cable Pulling Noise)
Making sure that: A) you don't have your foot on the switch and B) that you have full control
of what's going on with the cable.
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