Blunt blades correct tension????

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Vindaloo

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I have a half hairy, half silky smooth Dougal currently waiting in his box for me to come home with new blades and finish the job.
Started yesterday on his second clip of the season and half way through realised that the blades were blunt! They were brand new having only done the one clip previously.
I've had to grab another pair today so I can go home and do it tonight.
Question is: As they are fine blades, are they more likely to blunt quicker than say coarse? Or, have I got the tension all wrong and therefore blunted them. The clippers are liveryman and I tightened the screw all the way, then released it by a turn and a half.
I keep them clean and oiled and Dougal was as clean as I could get him without a bath.
He looks ridiculous, tram lines all over the place and half his bum still on and most of his belly...
Don't you just love this time of year.
 
i would think you prob need a coarser blade on them. I clip 2 horses out fully with a pair of wahl avalons with medium blades on, and find that by the time i'm finishing the second one i'm struggling a bit and the blades need sharpening. good job i have 2 sets!
 
Argh, b*gger. Why oh why did I go for fine blades? Thing is, last year I did 3 full clips with fine blades no problem. That said, this year he has turned into the hairiest beast in the world.
Think he is preparing for a bad one, second clip and I kid you not, he must have had an inch of coat!
Well, I have the two sets now too so guess that'll be a help since i'll always have a spare.
 
I use fine on my wolseleys and get an abverage of 5 clips out of them (2 original and 3 reclips) but boath horses have fine coats andare clipped regularly.

If hair is coarser or at all scurfy/dusty/muddy then fine baldes with go blunt quicker than coarse
 
Managed to fill a wheel barrow with 3/4s of his coat yesterday. He's never been as hairy as this.
I'll def be on 3 clips before Christmas.
I won't be letting him grow as much before clipping next time. It just happened so fast, one minute he looked ok, the next he had morphed into a connemara albeit a very large one...
 
You have def over tensioned them by the sound of it.

I do a mobile clipping service so its something i do ALOT of through the winter.

Ignore the instrustions on tensiong to start with they are rubbish and im sure were just pulled for a random chap in an office some place.

They should only be tensioned from a rattle to a purr. You blades will need constant adjusting as you clip depending on there your clipping and the vibrations from them will losen the nut so you will need to tweak it regularly.

Make sure you are holding then flat to the skin and not at an angle.

As you clippers start to get blunter you will have to start to do up the nut a tiny bit more the blunter ther go.

Be very careful not to over tension then because you will blow the motor and then its RIP clippers.

I get between 3-4 clips from a fresh set of blades depending to what im doing and how hairy they are- ponies are usually the worst be far.

happy clipping
 
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