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Reply To: Tony Team cardboard compactor wont rise back up again.

Solenoid valve could be stuck. Can you feel the hoses that go to the cylinder? assuming this has a hydraulic cylinder to operate. If the hoses alternate in getting stiff when you alternate the direction of the controls, but the cylinder does not retract, then the piston could have come off the cylinder rod, making the cylinder rod act as the piston, but not retracting.