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jagged edge to cuts? Help please!
Hi Guys,
When we were cutting this morning we noticed that some of our cuts have a serrated edge or a jagged cut? We have changed the blade and it has not disappeared? Does anybody have any idea what is causing this? It is doing it on both curves and straight lines! But not every cut is jagged?thanks
Dan
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9 Replies
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it "might" be that your blade is clogged in the holder or the blade lubricant has dried out. there for the blade stops spinning when its changing direction as it is dragged. the result is the blade jams half spin, so its being dragged sideways and not actually cutting. i would "guess" these ragged adge cuts are not the same every time?
take the blade out the holder. don’t touch the tip. give it a clean. then blow down the holder. using something like wd40 drip some of it down the hole of the holder. also some on the actual shaft of the blade. then drop it back in the holder and see how that goes.
as i said, might not be this but best eliminating the simple things before pulling your machine apart. 😀
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thanks rob will do!
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It could be that you are cutting from a low resolution bitmap image that when traced to a vector has not then been smoothed out. The resulting traced image then has very small pixeleted edges which the plotter can try and reproduce. ?
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Hi Stuart, it is happening with good quality fonts and low node vector images! it is not to do with image quality im afraid! thanks though!
Dan
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As Rob said I think it’ll be the blade holder. We had this problem on the Versacamm, got a new blade holder and the problem dissappeared.
Cheers
Gary
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Hi Gary,
can you remember off the top of your head what you paid for the new blade holder? Ive just been quoted 110.00 euros which seems a bit steep!cheers
Dan
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Dan
I ended up getting a copy one from Grafityp. Works equally as well as the Roland one, if fact it has already lasted longer than the original timewise and has definitely done more work. I buy my blades from them anyway. Off the top of my head £25 -£30 springs to mind but I couldn’t be sure mate.Cheers
Gary
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cheers gary will get in touch with them! these people want 110 for the blade holder and 110 for 5 blades and i dont think i have every paid that much for blades either!
thanks
Dan
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failing that check the protection strip, i had same problem, ended up taking off the blade housing totally stripping it down lubing it up and putting it back together only to find no difference..
after close inspection of the strip i noticed in certain places a groove had been worn into it and at these places was where the cuts were perforating…changed it and its worked sweet evre since
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