Little insight bout me first, then about what I need to know ;o)>....My name is Phil I am 38 and out of work due to a work related injury for the last 2 years. I retreaded trailer truck tires for 10 1/2 yrs 6 days a week 50+ hrs never called out of work very dedicated to the company,I was the forklift instructor and certifier, and head of the safety commity in charge of the retread shop. I would stack by hand on pallets 8 tires high some in access of 130lbs a daily average of 175 tires. In 2007 I had severe pain and numbness in my neck, back, and down my arm found out pinched nerve and 2 slipped disks in my neck. I worked for a year and a half still full tilt and still no calling out delt with the pain cause of my dedication to the company. 2008 I had a double fusion surgery in my neck told I would be out for 6 to 8 weeks for recovery. Due to being dedicated to the company I went back to work 2 weeks to the day after surgery with no restrictions. 6 months later Jan 2009 the company that I loved so much to work for pulled me into the office and laid me off 3 hours into my shift. Could not find work for 8 months went crazy during the down time I hate not being productive. Worked for 2 months as a mill write for a contracting company after 2 months got laid off because of the seasonal job. Got called back May 2010 for the mill write job 2 days after going back I had a scheduled doctor appointment. The doctor found yet another slipped disk just below my fusion, and told me he did not want me working till we got this fixed but said we will give it time to see if it heals itself could take in upwards of 5 to 10 years. So out of work again, I decided to get back into some hobbies. I do tattooing when I can bare the pain and numbness, I airbrush, custom, temp tattoos, t-shirts, cut my own stencils with a stencil burner, glass etch with mini sandblaster, and woodburn. The last couple months my injury has gotten worse couple more disks in my back with more pinched nerves so more numbness in my hands which prevents me from cuttin my stencils and so on. So I bought a Uscutter SC 34" in hopes to keep me going in my hobbies. I am affraid to go back to work for anyone else but myself ever again after all this. I hope with this description of myself will help people understand my reasoning for getting into the cutting field . I am sorry for the drawn out description.
Now to what I need to know....EVERYTHING!!!! lol. j/k I have learned so much just by all of your posts and video's. I am having an issue with the cutter cuting thru certain texts and makeing some xtra cuts in some images. I have already posted about it with a couple replies which I have done the suggestions like welding and things like that. But somethings are still doing the xtra cutts. Should I buy the serial usb adapter I have read about? Will it benefit in any way? Is there things that should be checked on the cutting screen? I am using inkscape 0.48 into signcut pro x2 on a sony vaio laptop with windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. I thank you all in advance for any information it is all greatly appreciated.
