Pretty sure I've fixed this issue for good.
I don't think the curved guides have anything to do with the jamming and never did. I think KM is just grasping at straws trying to blame the jams on the poor quality control of the moldings. We have a brand new RU-513 in our shop, installed on a machine that hasn't been sold yet. The bottom entrance guide is very curved but only at the very entrance, not far enough that any washers or anything short of deforming the metal plate a whole bunch, will correct. Of course trying that might cause other issues like binding of the rollers under (above) the metal plate.
I also had a customer in my service area with a brand new (installed just a few weeks ago) C368 that in the first week started having the classic RU-513 jams that were brought up here (our first time with any of these RU-513 issues, knock on wood). It started having 7543, 7542, and 3205 jam codes pretty consistently over a few days. Attached are the photos of the jam counter history prior to working on it for the jamming. The entrance guide on this RU-513 is perfectly straight, so I knew the bent guides couldn't be the issue. I took the RU-513 all apart and examined everything, resecured the plug to RU entrance sensor PS2 (positive that wasn't the issue but I always resecure plugs/connectors because many times over the years, that has fixed issues) which is the only sensor right in the middle of the paper path in the RU. I noticed that the actuator didn't pop up very fast like the spring didn't have enough oomph to quickly pop it back up. I decided to bent the leg of the spring that contacts the RU housing, in a fashion to increase the pressure applied to the actuator. (See attached photos.) I checked the RU-513 in our office and it felt just as weak as the one in my customer's office. I performed the same mod to the spring just to make sure it doesn't have issues. This is a quick, 5 minute mod and if any of our other machines have the same jamming issue, will be easy to cure. I just would like to have more than one sample to prove this fixes the issue but it sure has seemed to cure it for my customer.
They have run thousands through the machine, without it jamming, since I did this mod to the spring. Before my mod, the most they ran was 2,430 without a machine jam.
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