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can anyone help with cutting problem and a Stika SX12?
Hi,
I’m new to the forum and so far have just ‘spyed’. But now help is needed. Ok, you may all laugh at the Stika, but they are central to my business.
My problem – one of the machines has developed an intermittent judder which lasts maybe 1/2 a second and the position of the cut shifts (and is ruined). I’ve sent it back to Roland, but they say they can’t find anything wrong. (You have to wait at least 30 secs for it to happen :), or run at least 5 test cuts in a row 😀 ). I don’t think it is anything to do with the blade, or type of vinyl.
Anyone any ideas of how to fix it? Or does someone know of someone else I could send it to?
One other thing, since it’s come back from Roland, it now produces a small line before the box & cross in the test cut.
Thanks. Andy
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7 Replies
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Hello Andy,
Don’t deal with Stikas but most vinyl cutters all run along the same mechanical lines, if you do the same job over and over do you get the judder and shift in the same place or is it random.
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Good question. I rushed around and found the last set of test cuts I did (before burying my head in my hands). On checking them, it appears it goes wrong in a random place on the carriage. Does this help at all?
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quote :but they are central to my businesssounds likec yoiu have several so change blade holders over and see if problem persists sounds like a holder problem .
roland have posibly upgraded the firmwear so different test cut
chris
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Have to agree with Chris, it does not sound like motor or belt problem, the first things I would check would be blade holder, would have thought that Roland would have checked the loom (this is the connection between main board and head carriage) because if this is breaking down then it would give problems when cutting, not all the time at first but gradually getting more frequent until it finally breaks down.
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Will go and change the blade holder, and see what happens. (Havn’t done this yet since was convinced it was some sort of mechanical problem 😳 )
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Have changed blade holder, and now its been working fine for 2 days solid.
Thanks mrsticker & jobe,
Andy.
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a tin of wd40 with the tube on it stick the tube in to the old blade holder and blast it for a couple of secs to realy flush the bearings out. it only takes 1 small bit of grit to do as you discribed
chris
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