by highaltitude » October 8th, 2016, 3:54 pm
I cut many gaskets on my Silver Bullet machine. Something is causing the gaskets to come out stretched. It is a paper style rubber impregnated material. I sometimes have great success and cut 6 in a row without issues. Other times I can barely get one that matches the aluminum spacer it is matched to. I am trying to track down whether it is the rollers, the material stretching or my drawing. When they cut, the first 1/3 of the gasket matches the holes just fine, everything else is stretched out and \the gasket not useable. I can go back to the drawing and "nudge" the holes but doesn't seem to fix it. Also almost every time on the second pass of cutting the rollers do a very quick skip, I am thinking this skip is contributing the cut to not line up with the original cut. Also cant seem to do more than 1 gasket in a project. If I have 2x on the screen, the second never works right. Anyone know if another clamp roller assembly could be added just for more down pressure on the board? Seriously thinking of selling and buying a Glowforge Laser cutter. I can post pics of my setup if it helps.
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