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My food saver v 3425 will power on, and I cut my bag and then placed it in the seal opening and hit the seal stop but THE LEVER DOOR THAT COMES DOWN WILL NOT COME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO COMPLETE THE SEAL. It cycles and recycles with out completely closing. What should I do? And yes, it is completely closed and should be ready to use. I have never used it, this is the first time.
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Nov 9, 2008 - I know many of you use vacuum sealers, so hope you might be able to help. I have a FoodSaver Pro Sport, it's probably about three years old.
InstructablesMar 2, 2012 - I have a Food Saver brand Vacuum Sealer, that all of a sudden stopped ... If it won't heat up to seal the bag, then you probably have a break in
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Try making a seal with nothing liquid in bag, check seal on bag after. If seal looks good it could just be liquid getting on seal area causing it not to seal. There are tips online on how to help prevent this (example: placing rolled up paper towel sheet). If seal still looks bad than you may have a bad spot on the heat seal wire.
Could be the heating element (wire that gets hot enough to melt plastic) is going bad, how long have you been sealing bags with the unit? If you have used it for some time there is the possibility of build up plastic/residue on the the wire or the surface that actually comes in contact with the bag as I would suspect there is a coated surface the element heats up as opposed to the element / wire coming in contact with the plastic itself!
Just do not blanch first, this makes it sticky when defrosted.
Cut into pieces, place in heavy-duty freezer bag and draw out the air before sealing the bag. To use, wait for defrosting before opening packet.
Heating Element / Wire - After heavy use of the vacuum sealer, it is natural for the heating element to break. The amount of seals per sealing wire is dependent on your timer setting, how often you use your vacuum sealer and how thick your vacuum bags are. When you replace the heating element, we usually recommend you replace the sealing strip as well. Different machines have different sizes of heating elements but we carry five stock elements.
We discovered we were not moving the bags in far enough to be grabbed properly. After pushing in the bag before closing the unit we found it started sealing properly. This was on an older system, so be sure the bags you're sealling are between the black rubber rectanglar sections before closing the door.
If this is for a canister, be sure the rubber around the lid is seated properly. The rubber can be removed, cleaned and wiped dry. Clean out the lid and dry it too. Reseat the rubber seal and try again... Hope this helps.
i have a game saver plus. when i start the seal light comes on then it sucks the door closed then the seal light comes on again and the door opens and it stops
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