6) Accept That Some Heat is Normal While it may not be what you’d like, normally the blades dont actually heat up that much. We can fit a ceramic part to any normal width A5 blade for £2 extra during sharpening. Currently only normal width A5 blades and a few hair clipper blades have a ceramic part available. Ceramic does not heat up as much as metal, so the clipper blade runs cooler. 5) Fit a Ceramic Clipper Blade Ceramic clipper blades have one part of the blade which is ceramic rather than metal. 4) Swap Your Clipper Blades Most Professional groomers have multiple sets of clipper blades and if one set gets too hot they swap blades to let them cool. However as the blades wont cut with light tension its usually best to leave this alone. On clipper blades with no tension screw you can reduce tension by loosening the tension spring. 3) Reduce Blade Tension Horse clippers have a tension screw to adjust the blade tension and lighter tension will produce less heat. If you use a slower clipper, or use a lower power setting then the blades will not heat up as much. 2) Use Clipper at a Lower Speed The faster the blades are moving then the hotter they get. – Be careful not to get spray oil into horse clipper main head bearings as spray oil will dissolve the grease in bearings. – Liquid oil is a better lubricant than spray oil as spray oil is very thin. – Spray clipper oil is cold when you spray it from the can which does cool the blades. Oil should be applied in three places to the front at the teeth, to the back edge of the moving blade and also to the slide on top of the cutter blade (if there is one). 1) Oil Your Clipper Blades There are 2 types of oil, liquid clipper oil and spray clipper oil. 5) Fit a ceramic part in your clipper blade (A5 blades). 4) Swap to a spare set of clipper blades. 3) Reduce blade tension (horse clippers). Clipper blade sharpening has no real effect on how hot your clipper blades get but there are a few things you can do to reduce how hot your clipper blades get: 1) Oil your clipper blades (teeth, back & slide). If you sharpen your clipper blade like this then the teeth are splayed apart and your clipper blade will not work.Ĭlipper blades heat up while clipping from friction as the blades are moving. Conversely if you put 2 convex surfaces together the middle is touching and the gap is at the edge. As the teeth are at the edges of your clipper blades then a small hollow does work well. Why Hollow? If you put 2 concave (hollow) surfaces together the edges are touching and there is a gap in the middle. Practically a small hollow is more reliable. Why not sharpen them Flat? You might think a flat surface would be best, however DIY flat sharpening produces convex and not flat surfaces and professionally flat sharpened clipper blades can perform inconsistently. When you put these convex blades together the cutting teeth are splayed apart and will not work. DIY sharpening on a flat stone rounds down the tips of your clipper blades making the face convex. This gives very good contact between the cutting teeth so the blades will work well. To achieve this we sharpen each clipper blade with a slight hollow so that the tips of each blade slightly point into each other. The cutting teeth of your clipper blades need to be in close contact to work well.
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