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Summacut D60/U
After much deliberating and reading of the forums I’ve made the jump and purchased my first cutter.
I opted for a Summa D60/U from a guy local to me. The cutter runs well but unfortunately a couple of items were missing. A user guide and the media roll flanges. It also only came with one cutting blade.
Could any members possibly help me with this ? I’ve searched on-line but can’t seen to find a user manual to download. I guess the flanges and the blades I can pick up from a supplier, but who’s the best one local to Widnes, nr Liverpool ?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Pete
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6 Replies
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could be one of these
http://www.summa.be/pages_en/documents.htmlchris
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Peter
unless you are cutting extremely long lengths you won’t need the spools just put vinyl onto rollers & push the little black guides up to the roll edge. Blades go to Edward Mathias you can use either smart knives or standard blades.Kev
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Thanks Chris & Kev for the replies.
Having now read some of the manual, thanks to Chris’ link, it confirms what Kev said about the flanges. There is a disclaimer about the accuracy without them, but I doubt it will affect me at this early stage.
re: the blades. I picked the cutter up in Wallasey, Wirral so could have called in at Mathias’ while I was over there. Bit too eager to get home and play with my new toy I guess.
Once again, thanks to Chris & Kev
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i think if you’re dealing with full or half full (ie heavy) rolls of vinyl then you can get away without the guides, the main problems begin when you don’t get the rollers in the same position at the back, it’s not always instantly noticable and you’ll pull your hair out trying to figure why it’s going off track (this doesn’t happen with the guides as you’ll see something is wrong!)
the other problem is a roll with only a few metres on can be too light and might move, or worse, be pulled to the back of the cutter and cause an axis error because the guides weight didn’t break the tape which held the vinyl to the tube!
I went through a period of not using them, now i rarely don’t!
Hugh
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I never liked the idea of rollers so close to back of a machine, maybe some are better than others’ but I found with full rolls the inertia could cause miss tracking.
I just mocked up some brackets on the wall (or under homemade cutter stand) that hold a 70mm piece of plastic pipe 6" longer than vinyl cores and put vinyl on this… pull off more than is required for the job, line up in machine and away you go.Ian :lol1:
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I’m with Kevin – blades from Harry at Edward Mathias and I don’t even know where the flanges are for my Summa cutter. Harry is also an agent for Summa (amongst others) so he could possible supply you with any other spares.
Alan D
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