Meheen repair and service, from inside Europe
If your Meheen’s stopped, the useful question isn’t who built it. It’s who can look at it today. We diagnose from a photo and a description, we hold parts here, and when a visit is the right answer we’re travelling from Belgium.
We’re independent. Not affiliated with, authorised by, or an agent of Meheen or Wild Goose Filling. Which is the point. Your machine is in Europe and so are we.
Parts held in the EU
Shipped DAP. No transatlantic freight, no import paperwork, and VAT handled as a domestic transaction.
12-month warranty
On every part we supply, with the exclusions written down rather than buried.
We were owners first
We bought a Meheen before we ever worked on anybody else’s. Every machine we touch gets written up.
The three questions a stopped line actually asks
To a technical answer
An engineer reads it, not a sales inbox. Send a photo — if it would tell us more than a paragraph, and it usually would.
To a stocked part
Seals, O-rings, fill-valve components, common pneumatic parts. Anything made or specially sourced runs longer, up to six weeks, and we tell you which before you order rather than after.
To your site
Most jobs never need it. When one does, we arrange it with you — within days, depending on the job and where you are.
Send a photo, tell us what the machine is doing in your own words, and give us the serial number if you can find it. We hold only a partial register of serial numbers, so the photograph usually tells us more than the number does. Leave your number if you’d rather talk it through.
Here’s the sequence of how we work
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Get in touch
A photo, a line about what the machine’s doing, and your country. The serial if it’s to hand. Ten seconds of video of a valve misbehaving beats a page of description.
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We work out what it is
Usually from what you’ve sent. Sometimes it’s quicker to talk it through, and that costs nothing — leave your number and we’ll ring you. An engineer reads it inside 24 hours either way, and you get a diagnosis or the one question we need to get to one.
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Then it’s one of three things
Something you can put right yourself today, with a procedure we send you. Something that needs a part. Or something that needs somebody in front of it — either we come to you, or the machine comes here.
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Price and timing before anything’s agreed
Parts quoted per request. A visit quoted with the travel and the date in it. If we do have to come out to diagnose it, that cost goes into the job rather than on top of it.
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We ship, or we come
DAP anywhere in Europe.
Subsystem by subsystem
The fill section
Fill valves, seals and seats, fill tubes, bottle sealing surfaces, levels that vary head to head, dripping at rest. There’s nothing in a Meheen fill section that turns or grinds, so what goes wrong is a sealing, pressure or timing problem. Easily repaired or replaced.
Pneumatics and air supply
Cylinders, valve blocks, regulators, lines, filtration. A Meheen wants roughly 15 cfm at 90 psi (25 m³/h at 6.2 bar), dry and clean, through a dryer and a coalescing filter. A surprising number of “the machine is broken” calls turn out to be air that degraded quietly over months. A filter nobody changed. A compressor that can’t keep up once the chiller cuts in. Moisture in the lines. We check that before we sell you anything.
Crowning
Crowner head, chuck and magnet condition, crown feed and chute, cap seating, misapplication. Both crown sizes, 26 mm and 29 mm, and the changeover between them.
CO2 and the counter-pressure circuit
Pre-evacuation and purge, counter-pressure hold, snift and vent. If the machine won’t hold pressure, the most likely answer by a distance is a leak in the lines rather than anything dramatic.
Bottle handling and conveyor
Infeed and outfeed, grip and centring across the 53–76 mm range, conveyor drive, breakage in handling.
Controls and sequencing
Timing faults, machines cycling out of step, and the accumulated adjustments made over the years by people who’ve long since left.
Full overhaul
For a machine that’s more tired than broken. Strip it, assess it, rebuild it, run it, write it up.
A Meheen is a crown-cap machine. It doesn’t cork and it doesn’t cage, and no kit changes that. What it will do is run either crown size, 26 mm or 29 mm.
We restore what the machine does. We don’t change its function, and we don’t add or re-issue any CE certification.
The whole list, and it’s short
Meheen M2, M2CE, M4, M6 and Merlin N-Series.
If your machine looks older than the model on your paperwork — which happens a lot with machines that have changed hands twice — send us a photo of it. Working out what you’ve actually got is the first thing we do and it costs nothing.
Almost nothing we get called to was sudden
A seal that’s been weeping since spring. An air filter last changed by a previous owner. A crowner chuck that’s been marginal for months and everyone’s learned to work around. All of it is cheap in March and expensive in September.
A planned service is a scheduled visit or a scheduled parts drop. Wear items changed before they fail, the air system checked properly, fill levels and pressures verified, and the condition documented against your serial number so next year starts from a record rather than somebody’s memory.
We also do straightforward consultancy, which usually means helping somebody get more out of the machine they already own rather than selling them anything.
Free, and no enquiry required
Low or inconsistent fill levels
Every head, or some heads? That one split decides everything else.
Read the sequence SymptomFoaming at fill
One slow-fill test separates a beer problem from a machine problem.
Read the sequence SymptomPressure loss
Is the pressure not arriving, or arriving and leaking away?
Read the sequenceRather than the manufacturer. Meheen’s built in Colorado. They hold the design authority and we’re not claiming otherwise. But who has the part in Europe, who can reach your line this week, and who invoices you without an import are different questions with a different answer.
Rather than a general engineer. Plenty of good people can look at a filling machine. Very few have had a Meheen apart. We had one of our own before we ever worked on anybody else’s, and we’ve been inside enough of them since to know where they go wrong.
And because we’re new, we document instead of asserting. Records against serial numbers, work photographed as it happens, an open workshop, and a published account of what happens when something goes wrong.
The ones worth answering before you write
My machine’s down right now. What’s the fastest thing I can do?
Photograph it, tell us what it’s doing, say which country you’re in, and send it. Answer within 24 hours. Leave your number and we’ll ring you.
Do you charge for a diagnosis?
Talking it through costs nothing. If we end up having to come and look at it, that gets quoted first — and if the job goes ahead, the diagnosis goes into it rather than on top of it.
Do you need the serial number?
Only if it’s handy, and on an older machine there’s no plate to read it off — it’s stamped into the body somewhere. We hold a partial register anyway, so a photo of the part tells us more than the number would.
Can you fix it remotely?
Often. A lot of Meheen faults are fixable by whoever’s standing in front of the machine, given the right procedure. We’d rather send you that than sell you a visit you don’t need.
How far will you travel?
All of Europe, from Belgium.
Do you use genuine Meheen parts?
Most of what we fit is original SMC/Festo aftermarket, sourced and fitted by us. Some things we do have to buy from the manufacturer. The controller is the clearest example: the box itself is ordinary industrial hardware, but the program running on it is theirs, so a controller change goes through Meheen. We state the component sources transparently when ordering.
Will servicing affect my machine’s CE status?
We restore what the machine does. We don’t change its function, and we don’t add or re-issue any CE certification.
Can you make it do cork and cage?
No. A Meheen crowns, and no amount of work changes that. Crown size is a different matter — 26 mm and 29 mm both run, and we build the kit to swap between them.
What if it turns out to be my air supply rather than the machine?
Then we say so and you haven’t bought a part you didn’t need. It happens often enough that it’s the second thing we check.
What languages do you work in?
English and French.
Tell us what your machine’s doing
A photo, a line about what the machine’s doing, and the serial number if you can find it. An engineer reads it. Answer within 24 hours.