I changed my roller blade
Don't you just love a new blade in your roller cutter? I was having a problem with mine though. It kept crunching onto my ruler. I tried so hard to avoid this, and wondered how my eyes could have gotten so much worse overnight! I decided I needed to position it at a slight angle, but even so, I continued to run into the ruler ruining it and dulling my new blade too.
Around day three of this, I finally deciding I must have a lemon for a new blade, I figured it must have a slight bend in it, because something was definitely wrong with it, as I had never had this problem of cutting into my ruler before. That crunch was getting on my nerves. I was looking it over carefully when I thought, 'hum, I wonder if I put the blade on the wrong side of my cutter?' I took it apart and put the blade on the other side, and walla, no more crunch! I could tell immediately that my problem was me all along! So, the moral of this story is, the blade goes on the black side, not the yellow side -- the side that says 'blade cover.' This is just par for the course for me. If there is a right way and a wrong way to do something, I always chose the wrong way first. |
I have been a frequent member of the "Wrong Way First Club"! Glad you got that new blade in and happy quilting.
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hate changing the blades, always takes longer than it should!!
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Good for you for figuring it out! Sounds like something I would do but it would take me longer to figure it out! (if I ever did!)
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Same way with needles and bobbins and thread.
Originally Posted by DianneK
(Post 7014853)
hate changing the blades, always takes longer than it should!!
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I use my cutter in both hands so I would never have thought of that. Glad you got it straightened out.
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I always dread installing a new blade. I have before installed two blades by accident. Just installed a new blade in my 28 mm cutter and it is amazing how easily it is cutting now.
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My blade has been "crunching" into my ruler since we started the MQ. I just went to look at it thinking maybe I had the same problem and I think a piece is missing!! Shouldn't it have a black plastic circle on the blade side? I can't find it ANYWHERE! And I just bought this cutter a couple months ago when my original one went AWOL. Maybe this is a sign??!! UGH!
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OK, NOT missing a piece but I did have it put together wrong. Maybe this will help my strips be square!
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I impulse bought the pretty new Olfa splash rotary cutter at a Jo Ann's sale. Had to change the blade recently and realized it is one click!! Super easy! I am so glad I got it. Much easier than my 20 year old Olfa with the washer and nut.
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