Framer Dave, I have a manual I can copy and fax you if you would like. It isn't terribly forthcoming on troubleshooting though. Mine went out of square, badly, about six months ago. I have tried what I can but it doesn't stay put. I have always had a Fletcher, so I just don't know about this machine. It seems to stay in square on smaller pieces, but loses it's squareness on bigger pieces. I've tried jack's method too, but this thing just doesn't stay square.
It also, somewhere along the way has lost a sixteenth of an inch in it's measurement the past few months so I have to add a sixteenth to everything. I'd say that was somewhere in the cutting block but I've tightened everything I can think of. Once again, the manual doesn't really address much more than assembly.
Plus, everytime I turn around the glass cutter loosens up and falls out. That must be a stripped screw.
Plus, the screws you use to square it up are protruding just enough to scratch UV. I usually use a barrier sheet, but sometimes I am lazy and I think I am holding it away from the back, but it scratches anyway.
This thing is ten years old and who knows how it was treated before I got to it. Might be time for a new one. But that is the last thing on my list. I have taken to sizing my bigger boards the old fashioned way, on my mat cutter straight edge, but what a pain.
I'm sure it isn't a bad machine, just needs advanced techniques to fine tune it. Gee, I suppose I could call C&H, huh?
