Looking After Your Oval 6; Maintenance & Blades - KEENCUT OVAL 6 Bedienungshandbuch

6.1

Looking After Your Oval 6

Blades
The Oval 6 has been designed to use standard craft knife blades:-
Material
Regular matboard
Regular matboard
Thick matboard and foamcore
All materials
Replacement blades and glass cutting wheels are available through your Keencut distributor or from Keencut direct.
Cleaning and Lubrication
Clean the Oval 6 frequently with a damp or dry cloth and keep it covered when not in use.
Dirt can spoil your work
Do not use solvents, they can harm the paint finish, remove silicone lubrication and effect plastic components.
Lubrication. Use lubricant spray, apply it with a pad or cloth. Wipe off any excess liquid with a clean cloth.
Do not use oil, grease or all-purpose penetrating oils and sprays. Silicone spray may be used on the operating
disc under the table if ever required.
Fault Finding
Fault
Start/Finish mark
Cutting needing more than two
revolutions on regular matboard
Poor finish on the bevel
Excessive blade wear or tip
breakages
A double cut around part of
the bevel
Extreme lazy ovals (not vertical)
Ovals or circles not centred
in matboard
V-groove not meeting up after
one revolution
Maintenance and Blades
SM02
Operation
Cutting all except very small ovals/circles
Cutting very small ovals/circles
Cutting all sizes of oval/circle
Cutting V-grooves
Causes and Suggestions
- Hand Pressure applied to the cutting head before the turntable
had rotated to align the cutter
- Pressure applied to the cutting head too suddenly
- Blade depth not correct
- Change Blade
- Apply more pressure
- Blunt or broken blade
- Insufficient hand pressure on the cutting head
- Glass cutting surface scored
- Blade depth incorrect
- Blade depth incorrect
- Inconsistent pressure on the blade
- Not enough pressure on the cutting head during cutting
- Turntable rotating in the wrong direction
- Slide block wrongly set and adjusted (see 'Cutting small ovals')
- Scales not accurately set or adjusted on the clamp bars or
turntable edge.
- Blade tips need resetting to meet exactly when viewed from the direction
of cut. Please note that the blades are set one behind the other when
viewed from below.
cutting wheel
SM03
use blade...
SM02
SM03
SM03
SM02
6.1
Glass
The
Dexter No. 3
blade is also
suitable.