Badgematic FLEXI User manual

Badgematic Button GmbH
Industriestrasse 59-61
44894 Bochum
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[email protected]
www.badgematic.de
Badge Maker
Manual
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CONTENTS
1. Preparations
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06-07
The Machine
Important before you Start:
Cap Nuts & Stamp Sets
Important before you start:
Paper Inlay & Usage of Fabric
& Badge Designer
2. Make Buttons
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Arrange Badgematic
Material
Filling lower Stamp 1
Filling lower Stamp 2
First Processing
Second Processing
Your First Button
3. Exchanging the
Stamp Set
Taking out the Lower Stamp
Seperating the Upper Stamp
Inserting Stamp
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A few Drops of Oil
Cleaning
Help
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10
10-13
Fixing the Rubber Handle
Inserting the Stamp Set
4. Maintenance and
Customer‘s Service
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Guarantee
23-26
5. Guarantee

Congratulations on your new badge maker. Please read this manual
carefully before starting.

PREPARATIONS
The Machine
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1rubber handle
2operating handle
3upper stamp (upper part)
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swivelling plate
6ground plate
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lower stamp 2
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distance bolt
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lower stamp 1
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upper stamp 12
flexi-holding
(lower part)
converter
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bridge
cap nut
split pin
15 lifting bolt

IMPORTANT: BEFORE YOU START
The 4 cap nuts and the ball screws underneath may not be
adjusted or even removed! You should not touch them at all.
Hutmuttern nicht anfassen!
Hands off!
This device is responsible for the correct hold of the stamp sets. They have
to hold up well, but they have to be easy to swap off for exchange. Before
delivery, the ball screws have been perfectly adjusted in our technical de-
partment. And that‘s not so easy... If you change something about it, it will
not work properly anymore.
Hands off the cap nuts!!!
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Transport
If you carry your badge maker, please regard that the two lower stamps
are not fixed on the swivelling plate, so that they might easily fall down.
Also the upper stamp might get loose and fall down. This might easily
cause injury and damage to the stamps.
If you want to carry the badge maker, it is the best solution to carry the
stamp set in the carton with foam in which we have delivered it to you.
The inner parts of the stamp sets are made of aluminum and therefore
they are very soft and sensitive. It´s important that you handle them
carefully. Especially the upper stamp. Damages in the upper stamp
lead to malfunctioning. Never pull the lever if the upper and lower
stamp are not exactly positioned underneath each other!!! Never let
the stamps fall down.
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Upper stamp underside
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Be careful with the stamp sets!!!
Damage

Paper Inlay diameter = Foil diameter
Always cut the paper clean and round, preferably with a
circle cutter or a paper punch.
Basically, you CAN also use other, thicker or thinner paper or other
material, for example fabric, wrapping paper, even leaves, etc... The
thing is, we simply cannot guarantee you that it will work out. We
can not give you a universal recipe to make a 100% perfect button
anyway. You cannot make any damage , so don`t worry. Just try
it out!
There are some tricks how you will be able to use the material any-
way. For example, by cutting it out to a smaller diameter (so that it
doesn‘t have to be crimped), by placing an additional paper inlay
underneath, or by using the foil and then peeling it off the finished
button later.
Illustration: Paper used is too thick
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The Paper Inlay
80-90g strong „normal“ copy paper
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IMPORTANT: BEFORE YOU START

MORE HINTS
Usage of Fabric
Experience shows that nearly every kind of fabric can be used for buttons.
Exceptions are very thick and unflexible fabrics, woolen fabrics or fabrics
with a high share in stretch.
But there are so many kinds of fabric that it is hard to cover them all. If you
are not sure if it works: Just try it out! Instead of the paper inlay, just use the
fabric cut in the right size and leave out the foil! Depending on the fabric
you can also try cutting it in a slightly smaller diameter or using an addi-
tional paper inlay under the fabric. If you have problems with your fabric
anyway, you can also try to use the foil additionally to the fabric and peel it
off the ready made button later.
Badge Designer
At www.mybadge.de you find our free Badge Designer. You can easily
design your own buttons, save and print them. There is also a function for
positioning your design on our Print On Me Paper and for perfectly adjus-
ting this individually for your own printer at home.
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Now you can start ...

FIRST STEPS
Put the badge maker on a table in front of you. In the carton you
separately find the rubber handle - screw it into the operating lever.
Fixing the rubber handle
Put the badge maker in front of you so that
the ground plate is positioned vertically.
Turn the swivelling plate into a horizontal
position, so that you can correctly read the
word „Flexi”.
Inserting the stamp set
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Take the upper stamp. It consists of two parts, the upper part and the
lower part with the two split pins. Before you put the upper stamp
into the Flexi-holder you have to bring these two parts into the right
position: The upper part is movable. Turn it until the two bolts in it
are exactly above the holes you find in the lower part. Put these two
parts of the upper stamp together, so that the bolts disappear in these
holes. The retaining pin has to be positioned exactly between the two
split pins.
bolt
retaining pin
split pin
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Now put the upper stamp underneath the
Flexi-holder, so that the distance bolt on the
swivelling plate is exactly between the two
split pins of the upper stamp.
Now the upper stamp has to be put into the
Flexi-holder. Therefor, the retaining pin in the
upper stamp has to be put into the hole in the
bridge which you can see if you take a look
at the bridge from above. Put the retaining
pin into the right position until it is exactly in
this hole and then push the upper stamp up-
wards until you hear a “click”. It is best if you
push against the Flexi-holder with your two
thumbs at the same time.
FIRST STEPS
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The screws next to the holes in the ground plate have to be positioned
in the according holes in the lower stamps.
The rest is very easy: Just put the
two lower stamps into the holes in
the ground plate, they are accor-
dingly marked.
Attention: Take care that the lo-
wer stamp marked with 1 is at
position 1 on the swivelling plate
– and of course lower stamp num-
ber 2 at position 2. This is a popu-
lar mistake.
Ready! Now you can start making buttons.
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We will explain how it goes with the example of the traditional safety
pin. If you want to make another backside (for example mirrors), then
please have a look at the according product site at our webshop. If the-
re is no instruction concerning that, please contact us so that we can
give you support.
The button components:
!! Only Badgematic Originals !!
= Lifetime-Guarantee for your Badge Maker
Our original button components are perfectly adopted to our Badge-
matic badge makers. All parts fit together perfectly. They are subject to
our regular and stric quality control.
If you use button components / remakes from other traders, we can not
give you any guarantee on your badge maker anymore!
Only with our original blanks your buttons will always be perfect
and your guarantee stays valid.
Even very little differences in material, hardly visible for the naked eye,
can be the reason why there are problems in your button production.
The results are a lot of waste and sad faces: Buttons which are not pres-
sed together at all, buttons with defects like cut foil at the edges or
buttons which simply do not look as perfect as they should. Be safe, use
Badgematic components!
Making buttons:
MAKING BUTTONS

Filling lower stamp 1:
Turn the swivelling plate, so that lower stamp 1 is in front of you. Now
put into it one after another: The metal top, the paper inlay and the foil.
Depending on the design on your paper inlay, you should pay attenti-
on to the right position of the design. Otherwise the design will not be
in the right position after you have put the button onto your clothes.
1. 2.
3. 4.
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Get the required button components ready. These parts include a me-
tal top, a metal backside with safety pin, a foil and the paper inlay you
have designed, printed and cut before. (Note the information on paper
inserts on page 08.)

Filling lower stamp 2:
Turn the swivelling plate by 180° up to the stop. Lower stamp 1 is now
directly underneath the upper stamp and lower stamp 2 is in front of
you. Now put the metal backside into lower stamp 2. Concerning the
backside variation with safety pin, put it into the stamp with the pin
opening downwards (put it straightly into it, just like the paper inlay!).
Concerning the metal ring backside, put the ring into it with the edge
upwards. No matter which backside variation you want to produce,
just keep in mind: The side which you can see after you have put it
into the stamp, will disappear inside the button later. Or, the other way
round, the side which you can not see after you have put it into it, will
be visible at the backside of the ready made button.
MAKING BUTTONS
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First Processing:
Now you can produce your first button:
Pull the operating lever forward as far as it will go
(no violence, please). After you have released the
lever, the metal top with the paper inlay and foil is
in the upper stamp. ATTENTION: Do not hold the
swivelling plate or the front stamp with the other
hand while you pull the lever. The swivelling plate
always has to be free to adjust itself.
Do not hold the swivelling plate!
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Pull lever until there is no
more space
Second Processing:
Turn the swivelling plate by 180° again up to
the stop, so that lower stamp 2 with the metal
backside is now directly underneath the upper
stamp.
Pull the operating lever forward again. This time
you need a little bit more power. Pull the lever
until there is no more space between the two
parts of the upper stamp.
MAKING BUTTONS
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Your first button:
Turn the swivelling plate by 180°
again. There it is – your first self-
made button!
Backside Variations:
Depending on the backside variation you want to produce, an additio-
nal final step might be necessary. Concerning the 25 mm button with
D-shaped pin for example, you have to put the D-shaped pin into the
ring backside by hand yet. Concerning the 59 mm button with clip you
manually have to put the clip into the ring backside. Concerning the
25 mm earring button, finger ring button or button with metal insert
for sewing you have to glue the delivered parts into the backside with
the help of the self-adhesive foam pad. Please do not add before the
button is ready produced.
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The stamps of our badge maker type 900 Flexi are exchangeable. With
only a few movements and without any tool needed, you can easily
exchange the stamps and switch to another button size. This is how it
goes:
Flexi-Holder
EXCHANGING THE STAMP SET
Taking out the lower stamp:
Take the two lower stamps out of
the swivelling plate.
Separating the upper stamp:
Now the upper stamp has to be separated from the Flexi-holder. The-
refor, push the upper stamp down with your thumbs until it gets loo-
se – AND at thee same time push the Flexi-holder upwards with your
forefingers.
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