Originally Posted by
Jan in VA
It sounds to me like you might be pressing *very* hard as you cut.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it's time for a new blade.
I like the rotary cutters that only extend when you are holding them. The blade retracts automatically when you set it down. I need to get my mom one like this; she has a very, very bad habit of setting her cutter down with the blade exposed.
I can tell when the screw is getting loose on my rotary cutters, just by the way it feels when I'm cutting. Give the screw a quarter turn and I'm back in business.