Help - Changing a Rotary Cutter Blade
05-10-2017, 01:22 PM
#11
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This is kind of embarrassing, but I will fess up. A few years ago I stumbled onto an incredible deal on EBay. I got 3 Olfa original stick style 60mm cutters, 10 Olfa 60mm replacement blades and a pair of extra sharp small pointy scissors all unused in original packaging for $39. I gave one of the cutters to a friend who is a fellow quilter. I kept the other two. I only use one for cutting and the other one stays in its package so I can see how to put everything back together after changing blades. Yes, that's right, I have one for cutting and a 2nd one whose sole purpose in life is to be a real life model showing what a correctly put together rotary cutter is supposed to look like 
Rob
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05-10-2017, 01:28 PM
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This is kind of embarrassing, but I will fess up. A few years ago I stumbled onto an incredible deal on EBay. I got 3 Olfa original stick style 60mm cutters, 10 Olfa 60mm replacement blades and a pair of extra sharp small pointy scissors all unused in original packaging for $39. I gave one of the cutters to a friend who is a fellow quilter. I kept the other two. I only use one for cutting and the other one stays in its package so I can see how to put everything back together after changing blades. Yes, that's right, I have one for cutting and a 2nd one whose sole purpose in life is to be a real life model showing what a correctly put together rotary cutter is supposed to look like
Rob
Rob
05-10-2017, 01:32 PM
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I do it KLO's way, but I set the parts down in a shoebox lid as I go, so they don't roll away or fall off the table why I'm taking the thing apart. Learned the hard way and have also accepted that I'm diagram-challenged. So lining them up left to right in the order I take them off has been the trick.
05-11-2017, 03:12 AM
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I scanned the package of my cutter and can just pull up the directions on my computer without going to youtube. I have to do that with a lot of my how to directions, can't remember anything anymore.....I also store them in Dropbox, so I can look up on my phone if I am away from home and my computer. my mind is pitiful......sigh
05-11-2017, 03:26 AM
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05-11-2017, 03:41 AM
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I am laughing loudly, not at you but at me! I have been quilting for almost 10 years and at the quilt retreat I was just at the gal who owns the quilt shop and hosts the retreat said, "Sharon you have your blade on the wrong side." News to me, it seemed to work ok, then I remembered when I was cutting double layer of fleece I had a hard time getting the blade to go through the double layer. We sometimes are a slow learning bunch. lol
05-11-2017, 04:12 AM
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