Kemble
New Member
Did a few searches and tried all the things from the results. Nothing working so far.
My circles are not closing, smaller squares don’t close and tear the material in some places.
Machine is 13 years old, runs 2-3 hours a day 6 days a week. Only thing I have ever needed to replace were blades and Teflon strip.
Was cutting just fine yesterday, today I’m getting this. Cutting the same on chrome material and oracal 651.
I have taken the dust cover off, used nearly an entire can of air to clean out all the moving parts (was not dirty to begin with), put down new Teflon strip, have tested 3 different brand new blades, disassembled blue blade holder and cleaned it out with air, moved berrings freely with a needle to see if they were jammed. Cleaned pinch rollers and the side to side rollers (and track) that the head uses to guide it side to side. Cut speed down to 1/2 my normal speed as well as tested every offset from -5 to +5 (always run at 0).
I am all out of troubleshooting ideas, hence coming to the forums to see if I could find an answer. Nothing I have read has helped.
Is it time to replace some parts? If so what parts?
Like I said, machine was cutting perfectly yesterday, today it’s acting like it has a hangover or something.
Included 2 picks, one is through a 10x loom to try to get a good close up.
My circles are not closing, smaller squares don’t close and tear the material in some places.
Machine is 13 years old, runs 2-3 hours a day 6 days a week. Only thing I have ever needed to replace were blades and Teflon strip.
Was cutting just fine yesterday, today I’m getting this. Cutting the same on chrome material and oracal 651.
I have taken the dust cover off, used nearly an entire can of air to clean out all the moving parts (was not dirty to begin with), put down new Teflon strip, have tested 3 different brand new blades, disassembled blue blade holder and cleaned it out with air, moved berrings freely with a needle to see if they were jammed. Cleaned pinch rollers and the side to side rollers (and track) that the head uses to guide it side to side. Cut speed down to 1/2 my normal speed as well as tested every offset from -5 to +5 (always run at 0).
I am all out of troubleshooting ideas, hence coming to the forums to see if I could find an answer. Nothing I have read has helped.
Is it time to replace some parts? If so what parts?
Like I said, machine was cutting perfectly yesterday, today it’s acting like it has a hangover or something.
Included 2 picks, one is through a 10x loom to try to get a good close up.