Heineger Xplorers chewing up the hair with new blades

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I clipped my horse on Saturday and my blades went blunt so I put my new set of sharpened blade on and made sure the tension was correct but no matter what I did they wouldn't go through the hair, just chewed it up. I ended up having to borrow a friends clippers as I can't do anything with these. They have just been serviced and blades sharpened. I feel like I've got clippers I can't do anything with as the blades won't go through the hair. Any ideas?
 
It will still be the tensioning that's the issue, I've been there and done that with my Heineger's. I found that I needed to re-tension them once I'd oiled them rather than before and you can often hear once they're tensioned properly as their sound will change.

I did have one time I was really struggling to get them working and got them to what I thought should be right tension and then started clipping with them and changed the tension as they were going through the coat, once they were the right tension they clipped properly again, if you do resort to that make sure it's not on too obvious a place on the horse!
 
Agree, it will be the tensioning.
It's all a bit trial and error to get it right, and takes a few trial passes with the clippers to get it spot on.
 
Honestly I have never been able to clip with heineger blades after having them sharpened!
Folk think I'm mad but I can get 6 full clips out of a brand new set of course blades, get them sharpened and they never cut again. I have tried different sharpening places, multiple times with the same set of blades sent to different places and it makes no difference. I have 7 sets of blunt blades which are useless now. Tensioning made no difference. I can see the shiny lapping marks on the back so they were definately done and even went into the workroom to watch how they do it but still no use.
I just used to buy a new set every year.
Sorry not helpful I know.
 
OP, I’ve only had a similar issue when my blades haven’t been sharpened correctly, my tension was fine and also still sent my clippers off to get them serviced, it was the clipper company that suggested I buy brand new blades to check if it was the blades and it was!! I use Heiniger blades and only ever now get them sharpened at Sheerease, mind have been sharpened by them multiple times and I never have any issues, whereas previously I’d had them sharpened at tack shops etc. the clipper company told me that horse blades are relatively complex to sharpen correctly and it’s what they suggest looking at every time before thinking there’s a clipper problem.
 
angel7 said:
Honestly I have never been able to clip with heineger blades after having them sharpened!
Folk think I'm mad but I can get 6 full clips out of a brand new set of course blades, get them sharpened and they never cut again. I have tried different sharpening places, multiple times with the same set of blades sent to different places and it makes no difference. I have 7 sets of blunt blades which are useless now. Tensioning made no difference. I can see the shiny lapping marks on the back so they were definately done and even went into the workroom to watch how they do it but still no use.
I just used to buy a new set every year.
Sorry not helpful I know.
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I have had issues in the past with blades before I started sending them off to Sheerease, since then no issues with my Heiniger and also my Masterclip blades. One chap got so mad when I asked him about his sharpening process, he blamed it on “stupid women not knowing how to tension their clippers correctly” 😲, funny enough brand new set of blades and my clippers worked fine. If you don’t use Sheerease honestly give them a go, blades are expensive to keep having to buy.
 
Heinegers are wonderful when they work ...

There's a really useful guide to tensioning them on the ClipperSharp page, but I have had issues with newly sharpened blades not cutting properly as well. They are b*ggers to tension until you get the hang of it. As well as following the guidelines in the video, I find pointing them at the ground while tensioning seems to help for some reason.

www.clippersharp.com/learning-portal/79-tensioning-changing-blades

Oh, and never, ever, bother contacting the Heineger rep in the UK, he's the most unhelpful 4rseh0le I've ever come across.
 
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