screws to keep the cutter shaft assembly in place so you can’t move it with your hand – but you can move it
with gentle-to-moderate tapping with your small plastic mallet.
Turn the cutter
BACKWARDS
with your hand and observe which way you must move the cutter. Use your
small plastic mallet to “nudge” the cutter shaft assembly in the direction you want it to go. It is a good idea
to verify the cutter position in the “V” cut in the key after every “tap” of the small plastic mallet. Verify your
results by turning the cutter backwards with your hand. Also, verify that the stylus is properly seated in the
“V” cut in the left-hand key. Adjust the position of the carriage using the machine’s “stick-shift” lever as
required to keep the stylus seated in the “V” cut in the key.
Continue with this procedure until you are satisfied with the position of the cutter. Once you are satisfied
you may wish to turn ON your key machine and observe the spinning cutter wheel in the “V” cut in the key.
This test must only be done AFTER you have turned the cutter wheel backwards by hand and verify that no
cutter wheel teeth will contact either side of the “V” cut in the key. With the machine running you may want
to slightly “nudge” the spinning cutter a little more before retightening the two #10 –32 screws
MODERATELY.
Switch OFF the key machine.
Tighten the two screws using the 5/32” Allen Hex Wrench.
IMPORTANT –
Verify that your depth adjustment is correct and readjust if necessary.
16.
KEY GAUGE ADJUSTMENT
Stack two identical key blanks one on top of the other and clamp in the right-hand vise jaw. Be sure to
BOTTOM SHOULDER GAUGE them. DO NOT use the machine’s flip-up full-function key gauges.
There should be NO key blank in the left vise jaw for this part of the procedure.
Switch ON the key machine and carefully release the carriage and position it so the cutter wheel will make a
cut in about the middle of the blade of the key blanks. Hold the machine’s “stick-shift” lever steady and
carefully make a straight “V” cut into the two-piece key blank stack - go all the way to the carriage’s built-in
over-travel stop and move the machine’s “stick-shift” lever to the LEFT making a wide cut slightly more
than ¼” wide.
Pull the carriage back and
SWITCH OFF
the key machine.
Remove the two key blanks from the right-hand vise jaw.
Reinstall one key blank in the Right vise jaw- use BOTTOM SHOULDER GAUGING. DO NOT use the
machine’s flip-up full-function key gauges.
Install the other key blank in the Left vise jaw - use BOTTOM SHOULDER GAUGING. DO NOT use the
machine’s flip-up full function key gauges.
NOW flip up the machine’s full-function key gauges and place them in the wide grooves cut in the keys.
Adjust the key gauges as necessary by loosening the key gauge’s fastening screws - retighten the screws
when you are finished.
The key gauges now match the spacing of the vise jaws.
You
MUST
verify and readjust, if necessary, the machine’s spacing and adjustment.
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