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Old July 12th, 2008 -   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: Standard Knife Pressure?

This is great feedback, thanks everyone! Love my cutter thus far and learning a lot. I'll have to post a pic of my new "child" and I went with something different (Summa) to mix up the playing field around here!

Given that I'm test cutting with various materials to learn my way around the forest, I'm having some variations with settings.

I'm cutting 3 mil wall vinyl, Flock and Heat Applied Polyurethane (i.e., ThermoFlex Plus). I'm using my 36 deg blade for the wall vinyl & polyurethane with an average force of 80g but for some reason the ThermoFlex Plus is requiring more force. I'm using the 60 deg blade for Flock with 120g of force.

I will be saving my settings for quick access once I've confirmed these are the sweet spots.

Perhaps it helps too to do multiple jobs with 1 material before moving to the next. Would this explain why everyone who've replied thus far can keep the same settings?

AB