plain ol Bill

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    Ordered my lights, power transformer and a roll of red & black wire (for future use) from Amazon Thursday evening and it was in my mail box Friday afternoon - dang, wonder what took them so long to get it here. 26 bucks including WA taxes (grrr).

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    Somewhere the other day I saw a post where someone had put some LED strip lights on their cutter. Lit it up really nice. Like  a dummy, as usual I failed to bookmark it. Old guys need all the light we can get to see with. Anyone point me to that post please? 

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    Turned out to be the 110 - 220V switch. It was hidden well enough I likely would have never found it without help from USC tech help. Switched it back to 110V and it powered right up. Life got in the way of getting anything else done w/ it today.

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    Had a few things I needed to make up and don't really like farming work out. So got a new Titan3 w/ ARMS. Very nicely packaged and just tweaked the back once getting it into the house (where are all those kids when you need them?). Opened it up and scattered all the parts out. First impression - pretty nice stand - went together well - probably the nicest hardware I've ever seen with import stuff. Would have been nice if it came w/ casters. Even came w/ it own allen  combination wrenches. The rest of the world needs to go to SAE sizes - metric sucks (yes, I'm old and don't care what the rest of the world thinks). Set the cutter on the stand, bolted it down, moved the rollers over the grit wheel and cut off the plastic tie down on the head. Plugged the power cord into the unit, plugged the cord into the wall plug and touched the on/off button. IT WON'T POWER UP! Got my electrical tester, yes the plug in is hot and have power to the unit. Of course no one is at USC today so will give them a call in the AM & see if we can get it going. Not real happy but I'm sure they will figure it out & get it going. Will keep you posted.

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    I am still trying to figure out what a "tangential" blade is really (sounds dirty don't it :rolleyes:). Don't have a clue whether or not this cutter has their OPOS system (whatever that is). I purchased a cheap vinyl cutter several years ago and it ended up on the scrap pile behind my shop building a couple of days after delivery and is still out there somewhere covered up with weeds and scrap steel from the plasma cutter. Never did get that cutter to actually cut something that looked anywhere close to decent. I did buy a Tripplite USB to serial adapter.

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    Wildgoose I picked up a Summa T750 Pro. This is an old machine but Summa's are supposed to be built like tanks so maybe it has a lot of life left in it yet. I do not intend for this to be a business machine, just for personal use. It did not come w/ any sort of software and the outboard roller to hold rolls of vinyl is missing. I downloaded Summa Winplot to send files to the cutter and use Corel X6 for graphics work. Hopefully I can get it up and running without too many problems. This one is old enough it did not come w/ a USB hookup hookup so I ordered a USB to serial adapter so I can use it w/ a laptop.

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    Sorry to ask such a dumb question but this old brain just don't understand. When you are asked to set origin what the heck are they asking for? My brain tells me they want me to move the knife to the bottom right corner of whatever file I am cutting. Is this correct?

    I just bought a used Summa cutter and am trying to figure out what in the world I am doing. I own and run a CNC plasma cutting table so hopefully learning to cut vinyl won't be too gigantic a step to learn. Thanks for any help folks.