I have trouble understanding some japanese inscriptions on labels/buttons. A firend, who knows some japanese, told me, there are a lot of kanji and he does not know them. Can someone here help me roughly translate the meaning of the text? I took some pictures:
The amount of kanji is normal for everyday Japanese. And the kanji are the easiest part here. All those technical katakana terms are much harder to understand...
Is it one of these products? www.monro-switch.com
I don't really know what kind of machine it is, and there are some technical terms where I don't know the English equivalent (nor what it means exactly), so below is a rough translation.If sth. is still unclear, feel free to ask, perhaps somebody else can help.
1st pic
How to operate the pump(er) switch Push (lamp lights up) Device moves up Push again (lamp turns off) Device moves down
Safety Advice (literally: in order to avoid danger) Use is restricted to field work. When moving (To move?), please use the oil pressure (=hydraulic) lever to move it up.
2nd pic Pumper (Pump?)
3rd pic left knob: Adjust auto plowing depth, left shallow, middle auto, right deep middle knob: Monroe Changer , left manual, right automatically, below standard rotary right knob: Adjust Monroe facing (angle), top horizontal, bottom left "sloping down left", bottom right "sloping down right"
[Perhaps Monroe refers to a device you can use in combination this MonroeSwitch?]
4th pic
How to operate the Monro switch
columns from left to right, then rows from top to bottom separated by comma: 1: Monro change switch , +illustrations 2: Lower link width, large, large, small, small 3: Position of lower link hole, back, front, back, front 4: Devices that can be used include (=for example), Rotor(Rotary) with quick itch, prow, Rotor(rotary) without quick hitch, till/plow rotor(rotary)
Illustration to the right, top to bottom frontal lower link hole back lower link hole lower link width: 590mm(=)small, 718mm large
thanks for the help! THe labels are actually on a japanese tractor, I suppose that Monroe made one of the hydraulic components (Monroematic).
Even after knowing what the japanese on these labels means, I am not much closer to understanding what is ment by most of it :D It is really hard to wrap your mind around something that you have no idea of how it was meant to work :)