TomK
New Member
Hey All,
Have a Summa S2T that I absolutely love, except for when the time comes to change the blade in it. I have marks on the holder and rod to line them back up and use same number of rotations in and out to try and get it back to where it was...and for the most part this works fine.
The down force for normal cutting is quick and easy to dial in and for the most part it is a +/- 5 setting to get it back where it needs to be. However...
My issue is with the Flex/perf cut settings. I have to readjust the flex cut settings drastically up or down after every blade change, and it is time consuming and eats a bunch of material since I have to do this obviously for each material I run through the plotter.
For example, fresh blade change last weekend - and I had to increase the flex cut settings by 45 and 25 for one material I use, and decrease em for another material I use.
Makes absolutely no sense to me and is getting quite frustrating. I wish Graphtec and Summa could figure out a way to innovate this process a bit, like just drop in a cartridge and it positions it back where it was or something like that.
Any suggestions from the pro's on a good process for changing your blades or is it just a fact of life to have to dial in each materials settings again after each blade change?
Also, I tried Clean Cut blades in my Summa, that was a big failure. They work fine in my Graphtec, but not so well in the Summa. I compared the size of the blades to the OEM Summa, and the CC was a bit shorter so not sure if that had anything to do with it or not. The CC blades also left my vinyl contour cuts feeling a bit rough when I ran my hands over the cuts compared to the Summa blade. This was with the 36 degree blade, since that is all I use in the Summa.
Have a Summa S2T that I absolutely love, except for when the time comes to change the blade in it. I have marks on the holder and rod to line them back up and use same number of rotations in and out to try and get it back to where it was...and for the most part this works fine.
The down force for normal cutting is quick and easy to dial in and for the most part it is a +/- 5 setting to get it back where it needs to be. However...
My issue is with the Flex/perf cut settings. I have to readjust the flex cut settings drastically up or down after every blade change, and it is time consuming and eats a bunch of material since I have to do this obviously for each material I run through the plotter.
For example, fresh blade change last weekend - and I had to increase the flex cut settings by 45 and 25 for one material I use, and decrease em for another material I use.
Makes absolutely no sense to me and is getting quite frustrating. I wish Graphtec and Summa could figure out a way to innovate this process a bit, like just drop in a cartridge and it positions it back where it was or something like that.
Any suggestions from the pro's on a good process for changing your blades or is it just a fact of life to have to dial in each materials settings again after each blade change?
Also, I tried Clean Cut blades in my Summa, that was a big failure. They work fine in my Graphtec, but not so well in the Summa. I compared the size of the blades to the OEM Summa, and the CC was a bit shorter so not sure if that had anything to do with it or not. The CC blades also left my vinyl contour cuts feeling a bit rough when I ran my hands over the cuts compared to the Summa blade. This was with the 36 degree blade, since that is all I use in the Summa.