How to Align your Clipper Blades

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How to Align your Clipper Blades
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Identifying the different parts of the clipper blade
0:20 How to attach the spring to the socket
0:30 How to attach the blade guide to the spring
0:40 How to reassemble the clipper blades
1:16 How to check if clipper blades are aligned
1:30 The optimal setback for cutter blade in the assembly
2:00 Tighten the screws to enough to hold everything in place
Transcript:
Hi, this is Jessie with Sharp Edges in Oklahoma.
And today I wanted to make a video on how to reassemble and align your clipper blades.
Let's start by identifying the pieces.
This is the blade guide, the socket, the spring, the comb blade, and the cutter blade.
We'll start by taking the spring and putting the socket inside it like that, just sliding in there and slipping into there and it'll end up looking like that.
I'm going to take the blade guide.
You'll see there's a little groove there, put that in the edge of the spring.
Set that down.
We'll take our cutter blade and we'll set it on top of the rails of the comb blade there.
Then we'll take our spring assembly, and set the blade guy down in the groove on the cutter blade.
We'll pick that up.
We'll pinch it, flip it over and we'll align those holes there, take one of our screws, put that in there and we'll take our number two Phillips screwdriver, tighten that down, tighten it then back it up about a quarter turn so we have a little room to make adjustments which we'll do here.
We'll line this up, take another screw, put that in, tighten it up, and back it up a little bit so that we can move.
We want to be able to move this spring and, and play here to get what we call the setback, and right now as you can see it's too far forward.
So let's - we're gonna move it back a little bit and we're going for about 1 to 2 credit cards with a setback.
As you can see this little ramp area here, this is the number 10 blade and then you see that with the flat area starts there, that's the actual cutting surface and we want to be just behind that, just a little bit, so just a little bit more and there we go.
That's a good setback right there approximately the width of a credit card.
You can see that you just take that tighten it down and you're good to go.
I hope that helps someone.
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[@Charlottebell333]

Can you show how the teeth should be aligned too please? I’ll be cutting for a while fine, then only the smallest amount of resistance (maybe trying to go through a knotted piece of fur) and they immediately start to drag the hair not cutting smoothly ,plus I notice a slight change in the noise of the clippers. The only thing I can put it down to is the cutting blade getting misaligned and snagged whilst trying to cut through a knotted area.

[@Charlottebell333]

The blades are clean,rust free and regularly oiled. I follow the guides online of setting the cutting blade on the first small tooth of the stationary teeth, but even after doing so, they still snag. I then try to change it up and maybe change where the cutting blade is, and sometimes they’ll start working again,but sometimes not. It’s basically hit and miss whether it’ll work again. So frustrating, it there any explanation to this and why sometimes they’ll work and sometimes not .

[@sharpedgesok]

@@Charlottebell333 sorry for taking so long to respond, I don't see notifications all the time. I'll make a video tomorrow going over set back of the cutter (small top blade). Also check through my videos and you'll see on that goes through the possible reasons why blades don't cut. also you can have your sharper take a look at them.

[@murrayshomeforwaywardchick9182]

Can you please clarify the alignment left to right? I have slight left and right play and am unsure if the teeth should be lined up over each other, or alternating between the two rows. Thanks!

[@sharpedgesok]

@@murrayshomeforwaywardchick9182 here is a link to a video showing setback.
ruclips.net/user/shortsqTr6CIZRSRQ?feature=share

[@sharpedgesok]

here is a video showing proper setback. ruclips.net/user/shortsqTr6CIZRSRQ?feature=share