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Note:
Ensure that the nuts or back of the
bedbar adjusting screws are not resting on the
work surface
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3.
Rotate the reel so that 1 of the blades crosses
the bedknife edge between the first and second
bedknife screw heads located on the right side
of the cutting unit.
4.
Make and identifying mark on the blade where it
crosses the bedknife edge.
Note:
This will make later adjustments easier.
5.
Insert a 0.05 mm (0.002 inch) shim between the
blade and the bedknife edge at the point marked
in step 4.
6.
Turn the right bedbar adjusting screw
until you feel light pressure on the shim when
sliding it side-to-side. Remove the shim.
1. Bedbar-adjusting screw
7.
For the left side of the cutting unit, slowly rotate
the reel so that the closest blade crosses the
bedknife edge between the first and second
screw heads.
8.
Repeat steps
4
through
cutting unit and left bedbar adjusting screw.
9.
Repeat steps
5
and
at the contact points on both the left and right
sides of the cutting unit.
10.
To obtain light contact between the reel and
bedknife, turn each bedbar adjusting screw
clockwise 3 click.
Note:
Each click on the bedbar adjusting screw
moves the bedknife 0.018 mm (0.0007 inch). Do
not overtighten the adjusting screws.
Turning the adjusting screw clockwise moves
the bedknife edge closer to the reel. Turning the
3).
(Figure
Figure 4
6
for the left side of the
6
until there is light pressure
adjusting screw counterclockwise moves the
bedknife edge away from the reel.
11.
Test the cutting performance by inserting a long
strip of cutting performance paper between the
reel and bedknife, perpendicular to the reel
and bedknife
forward to cut the paper.
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(Figure
5). Slowly rotate the reel
Figure 5
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