Our guillotine at work has started to play silly buggers and is cutting diamond shaped instead of square, playing merry havoc with anything that needs folded after cutting.
I'm bringing in some tools tomorrow and I'm gonna resquare the backgauge, I know the rudiments of the process:
• Loosen two bolts either side of the centre pivot
• Loosen the centre pivot
• Swear.
• Finger tighten bolts
• Cut a sheet
• Swear
• Loosen bolt on left, tighten bolt on right (or vice versa) and cut another sheet
• Swear
• Adjust again and it still doesn't cut square
• Start drinking at 10am
• Rinse and repeat until it cuts square
• Tighten both adjustment bolts
• Tighten centre pivot
Job done.
Apparently. I'm thinking of folding the sheet in half, or rather, comparing the lengths of opposite sides to gauge how square the cut is.
Anybody done this before and have any top tips or pitfalls to avoid? Would be much appreciated.
PS We got an Ideal 4850-95 (don't laugh).