blue and red blade holders?

[Jackpine]

Anyone have a quick comparison for Graphtec FC series blue and red blade holders?

 

[rturner381]

Good morning! Blue tip is used for general, everyday vinyl cutting i.e. cast and calendared vinyls. Red tip is used for sandblast resist, reflective, and high intensity reflective.

 

[Dennis422]

Blue is CB09 and Red is CB15.

.9 mm thickness or 1.5 mm thickness of the blade.

 

[bob]

Blue is CB09 and Red is CB15.

.9 mm thickness or 1.5 mm thickness of the blade.

True but...the word you might have chosen is 'diameter' not 'thickness'. While 'thickness' is correct, it is imprecise.

The tips of the blades, which is what does most of the cutting, on both the .9mm and the 1.5mm are identical. The length of the cutting edge, the sharpened edge above the tip, is obviously longer on the 1.5mm but either blade has sufficient length of cutting edge to cut most anything you could feed through the plotter.

The only functional difference is that the 1.5mm blade, and by extension the holder, is sturdier when is comes to resisting lateral forces put upon it when dragging it through heavier materials.

 

[phototec]

True but...the word you might have chosen is 'diameter' not 'thickness'. While 'thickness' is correct, it is imprecise.

The tips of the blades, which is what does most of the cutting, on both the .9mm and the 1.5mm are identical. The length of the cutting edge, the sharpened edge above the tip, is obviously longer on the 1.5mm but either blade has sufficient length of cutting edge to cut most anything you could feed through the plotter.

The only functional difference is that the 1.5mm blade, and by extension the holder, is sturdier when is comes to resisting lateral forces put upon it when dragging it through heavier materials.

Bob, very good explanation...

 

[Dennis422]

What I meant to say is "body" of the blade, not the actual sharp part

 

[Jackpine]

Thanks for all of the great responses. I just picked up a FC cutter and am in a bit of a new learning curve.