Icecut 250 & Icecut 250P
Original Instructions
12-2018
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4) Excessive
cutter breakage
Steel swarf or dirt under cutter.
Incorrectly re-sharpened or worn cutter.
Cutter skipping.
Slide needs adjustment.
Cutter not attached tightly to arbor.
Insufficient use of cutting oil or unsuitable type of oil.
Incorrect speed
Remove cutter, clean part thoroughly and replace.
Always have a new cutter on hand to refer to for correct tooth
geometry, together with instruction sheet.
See causes and remedies (2).
Tighten grub screws supporting the slide.
Retighten.
Inject oil of light viscosity into the coolant-inducing ring and check
that oil is being metered into cutter when pilot is depressed. If
not, check pilot groove and arbor internally for dirt or apply oil
externally. (Even a small amount of oil is very effective).
Ensure correct gear is used for the cutter.
5) Excessive
cutter wear
See cause and remedy above
Incorrectly re-sharpened cutter.
Insufficient or spasmodic cutting pressure.
Refer to instructions and a new cutter for proper tooth geometry.
Use sufficient steady pressure to slow the drill down. This will
result in optimum cutting speed and chip load.
16) TROUBLESHOOTING
Magnet and motor do not function
- Damaged or defective wiring
- Defective fuse
- Defective control unit
- Defective power supply
Magnet does function, the motor does
not
- Damaged or defective wiring
- Carbon brushes are stuck or worn out
- Defective on / off switch
- Defective control unit
- Defective armature and/or field
- Defective protective reed switch
Hole cutters break quickly, holes are
bigger than the hole cutter
- Play in the guide
- Bent spindle
- Shaft extending from the motor is bent
- Pilot bent
Motor running roughly and/or seizing up - Bent spindle
- Shaft extending from the motor is bent
- Triangular guide not mounted straight
- Dirt between spindle and triangular guide
Motor making a rattling sound
- Gear ring (bottom of the armature) worn out
- Gear(s) worn out
- No grease in gear box
Motor humming, big sparks and motor
has no force
- Armature damaged
- Field burned
- Carbon brushes worn out
Motor does not start or fails.
- Damaged or defective wiring
- Damage to armature or field coil
- Damaged or defective brushes
Guiding takes a great deal of effort
- Guide is set too tight
- Guide is dry
- Guide/gear- rack/rotation system is dirty or damaged
