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Lift Uncrate and Assembly Guide

Lift Uncrating, Assembly, and Installation Guide

Tools Needed for Uncrate

  • Two People

  • Pry-Bar/Crowbar

  • Hammer

  • Heavy Duty Work Gloves

  • Drill or Impact Gun

  • Phillips #2 Screwdriver

  • 10mm Wrench or Socket 

Tools Needed for Assembly

  • 10mm open-ended wrench (or adjustable wrench)

  • Pair of pliers

  • Flat-head #2 Screwdriver

  • Adjustable Wrench or Socket

  • 8mm Flex airline connection point

Opening the Crate

Your SOVDA Lift will ship in a crate with a top panel that is easy to open. The crate will have an interior frame that the top is stapled onto. Using a pry-bar/crowbar, wedge underneath the top piece of plywood, you can use a hammer to assist with this. Once the wedge is in, begin to slowly pry off the top piece working from corner to corner. Once you have three sides loose, the lid can be titled upwards which will pull out the remaining staples.

After removing the top piece of the crate, take photos of the equipment, including the clearances to the crate walls. This will assist if a damage claim needs to be made against insurance.

Next remove one of the sides of the crates. Using a crowbar, remove the nails and brackets on the corners. Once you have all four corners loose, use assistance from another person to remove the side of the crate.

We recommend the assistance of two people to lift the equipment out of the crate. Please take a moment to perform an equipment and inventory check, ensuring there is no damage, and you have received all of your parts.

If you have missing parts or damaged equipment. Please report this to the Service Department within 48 hours of delivery.

Lift Options & Assembly Overviews

Depending on your order, we have two options for vacuum part of our lifts. These are referred two as canister vacuum, and SOVDA Vacuum Box. These refer to the vacuum part only, and the run of piping to each vacuum is interchangeable.

Assembly for Standard & Precision Hopper and a Standard Lift

If your lift does not contain any additional piping, you’re lift will will most likely have this configuration. If you have a Precision Fill, you’ll need to adjust your feet so the total height is 2.47m (2470mm).

You can measure these parts to ensure your layout is similar. If you have a custom run (longer than what is shown below) please contact your Technical Brand Ambassador to receive your lift plan.

Assembly of Parts

Preparing the Cyclone

We recommend placing the cyclone carefully on a forklift, and lifting to about chest level. We recommend you take this moment to visualise where your hopper and vacuum will be. You can adjust the orientation of the inlet into the cyclone (lower, thicker tube) and the vacuum outlet (upper, thinner tube). 

We recommend you do this at this stage, as it is difficult to do once the cyclone is connected to your equipment.

Adjusting the bean inlet (lower, thicker tube)

Remove the access panel from the cycle by undoing the 5 Alan key screws and take off the panel.

Loosen (do not remove) the bolts on the lower part of the cyclone on the top, and slightly loose (do not remove) the trim-clamp inside. When you rotate the cyclone, you’ll move the orange butterfly valve underneath inside that won’t be able to spin fully due to the design. You’ll need to hold this in place while rotating the top.

While holding the butterfly valve underneath, pull or push the cyclone in the direction of which you want the tube to face. 

We recommend leaving these loose so you’re able to adjust once you’re starting to build your lift the run.

Adjusting the vacuum inlet (upper, thicker tube)

Start to undo the V-Band that goes around the centre of the cyclone, and take this off. You may need to pry open the cyclone gently with a screwdriver. Once removed, simply rotate the top to the desired position. Use caution as the cyclone is heavy.

Ensure both parts, and the rubber seal is aligned and replace the V-band, and tighten. We recommend tightening enough so the lid is secure, but loose enough so you’re able to adjust once you’re starting to build your lift the run if you need to fine-tune the position.

Use a mallet to knock the sides of the V-band which will enable you to tighten the V-band more. It’s essential this is as tight as possible.

Connecting the Three-Way Valve (SOVDA Vacuum Box Only)

If you have purchased the SOVDA Vacuum Box, you’ll need to connect a three-way valve to the vacuum element of the cyclone. If you have a standard canister vacuum pictured below, please skip this step.

Within your part packs, you’ll find 2 x 8mm elbow push-fits with threads. Using a wrench, insert these both into A & B in the three-way valve. The elbow piece will spin independently to the thread.

Using a trim-clamp and a seal, place onto the vacuum inlet pipe at the top of the cyclone. (You may need assistance from a second person).

One at a time, cut the pipes from the solenoid box and place a 8mm T-connector on both pipes. It’s important you do not mix up these pipes.

Once you have the T-connectors in place, use the included 8mm flexi-pipe to connect to the three-way valve. The top pipe in the solenoid box should connect to A and the bottom should connect to B.

Installing the Cyclone

If installing the lift onto a Pearl Mini or Precision Fill. Ensure you have unscrewed the mounting screws on top of your equipment first.

Using a forklift, slowly raise the cyclone up to the top of your equipment, and place as close as possible to your equipment. Using two people lift the cyclone onto the top of the equipment. 

Its important to note that you do not slide the cyclone from the forklift to the equipment. The butterfly valve on the underside is lower than the mounting plate of the cyclone. Please lift the cyclone to ensure there is no damage to the butterfly valve.

Screw the 6 screws into the mounting plate to secure.

Connecting the flexi-pipe

For Canister Vacuum Lifts

If you have a canister vacuum, you can install the elbow and then the flexi-pipe adapter piece with the opening directly onto the cyclone, and then slide the 51mm 5 meter flex-pipe onto the slit. We recommend leaving the slit around 3/4 open as shown below.

Connect the flexi-pipe to the bottom part of the vacuum and use the the screw clip? to secure.

For SOVDA Vacuum Box

If you have a SOVDA Vacuum Box, install the elbow and then the flexi-pipe adapter onto the cyclone and slide onto the adapter and use the screw clip to secure.

Install the other flexi-pipe adapter to the SOVDA Vacuum Box and connect the flexi-pipe to the adapter and install the screw-clip to secure.

Building the Lift Run

Placing the hopper in the desired position, build your run by connecting pipes together with using the seals and trim-clamp pieces. Ensure trim-clamps are tight to ensure no air-leaks within the lift.

If you have ordered a Precision Hopper, please ensure you remove the shipping supports, and calibrate the hopper.

Adjust the feet and/or leg bolt position to achieve the desired height, and ensure the hopper is level by adjusting the feet and secure jam nuts.

We recommend a minimum of 1 deceleration pipes within on the lift, these pipes are wider in diameter at 76mm. The longer your lift is horizontally, the more deceleration pipes will need to be installed to ensure beans are not breaking once they enter the cyclone. Your Technical Brand Ambassador will have calculated this for you. If you have more than one piece, ensure these are all installed, along with the 51mm to 75mm adapter.

For a standard lift to the Pearl Mini, we recommend the following lift run.

Hopper (at 720mm) -> 400mm 51mm pipe -> 150mm sight-glass -> 770mm 51 pipe -> 600mm 51mm 90 degree elbow -> 51mm to 76mm adapter -> 300mm 76mm pipe-> cyclone.

If the Pearl Mini has a base, add additional pipe of the same length as the base anywhere vertically on the lift.

If you have a Double Hopper, your top bean-inlet will have a vertical pipe of 1000mm instead of 770mm.

Connecting the Control Box

Identify the preferred location to mount your control box. Inside are 4 holes to be able to mount the control box to the wall. If a wall is not available, you’ll find hangers or machine screws within your parts bag that you can install to either hang off the door of the Pearl Mini, or if you have a Precision Fill, you’ll find two mounting holes on the right of the machine.

Run your cables cleanly from:

Cyclone solenoid box to the control box

Control Box to the vacuum (either canister vacuum or SOVDA Vacuum Box)

Control Box to Power.

Your cables are labelled, and your Control Box will have each input labeled on the bottom.

Adjusting the Air Regulator

You will need to adjust the air regulator on your equipment to ensure consistent air pressure, we recommend setting this at 0.4mpa.

Locate your air regulator, and pull the adjustment dial either up or down until it clicks, then twist the dial up or down to adjust the pressure. Lock the adjustment dial in place by either pushing or pulling until you hear a click.

You can also adjust the dial to zero to bleed out the air within your equipment if needed.

Double Cyclone

If you have a Double Cyclone in your order (two hoppers into one machine), please follow Connecting your Double Cyclone.

Lance

If you have a Lance in your order, please follow Installing the Lift Lance.