Please Help FAV AV2 Skiver

[Sonya]

Hi All,

My name is Sonya and I'm new to this site and forum.

The company that I work for just purchased a FAV AV2 Skiver. 

We have messed up the original settings on the machine and now I am unable to skive. Originally when we bought the machine it was skiving great. However, when we started using different types of leather, we had to adjust the feed roller, foot pedal etc. Since making these accommodations for the different leathers, we are unable to feed the leather through as well as it's not skiving. When I do get the blade to engage to skive, it eats the leather.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Thank you,

Sonya

[jimi]

Hi There, could you send some pictures of the area where the foot and feed wheel are? something like this. jimi.

[Sonya]

Hi Jimi, 

Here is a 2 photos that I hope will help you diagnose. 

Thank you for your attention to this.

 

Best,

Sonya

 

[jimi]

Hi there, possibly looks like your knife is too far from the foot?? you can check the measurements against the list in the picture,  0.3-0.4 for normal leather. you will have to have something to gauge like paper. here is a link to a video explaining how to "0" set the skiver.

 

[Sonya]

Jimi- thank you so much. This video was extremely helpfui. I am now going to use his methods (or yours) to adjust ours.

 

Best Regards,

Sonya

[Sonya]

Hi Jimi,

I was able to fix our problem. It was exactly what the video showed.

 

Again, thank you so much. 

Sonya

[jimi]

Glad to hear Sonya. keep on truckin..

[Sonya]

Hi Jimi,

I'm back to where I was last week. 

I think it has a lot to do with the thick washed lamb that I'm using. It's approximately 1/8" thick while being thick and squishy.... 

I feel like throwing this thing out the window!!!

Best,

Sonya

[gigi]

Is the knife sharp and the edge deburred? It worked last week with the same adjustment and the same leather? Sometimes the knife may seem sharp but it is not sharp enough: the edge should be very well polished.

I've learned from @Trox: If the leather is very delicate you can try using some blue masking tape on the grain side of the leather to make it strong enough to be run through. 

[Sonya]

Hi Gigi,

Thank you for your response.

I have made sure that the knife is extremely sharp and it has been deburred.  I have used blue painters tape in the past. However, it would eventually bunch up the tape with the leather included between the roller wheel and blade. 

I am frustrated to say the least. 

Does anyone know of anyone state side that "may" be willing to do a site visit?

Thank you again,

Sonya

 

38 minutes ago, gigi said:

Is the knife sharp and the edge deburred? It worked last week with the same adjustment and the same leather? Sometimes the knife may seem sharp but it is not sharp enough: the edge should be very well polished.

I've learned from @Trox: If the leather is very delicate you can try using some blue masking tape on the grain side of the leather to make it strong enough to be run through. 

 

Hi Jimi,

I'm back to where I was last week. 

I think it has a lot to do with the thick washed lamb that I'm using. It's approximately 1/8" thick while being thick and squishy.... 

I feel like throwing this thing out the window!!!

Best,

Sonya