I'm having trouble getting my blade depth and pressure set correctly on my CE5000. I'm using a clean cut 60 degree blade, which I've been using for a while. When doing test cuts, and adjusting until I get a nice clean cut, I end up with the blade sticking WAY out. My pressure is set to 14, upping it to 15 made no difference.

FYI, it was cutting fine until I took the blade and holder out to clean some residue out of it. When I reinstalled it, I decided to make sure my depth was right. I adjusted the depth until the blade would just cut vinyl and not cut backing. Remounted the holder in the cutter and it barely scratched the vinyl. So I'd do a test cut, turn it out more, do a test cut, turn it out more. Etc. By the time it was cutting the test pattern completely, it was sticking out much too far by any standards.

Thanks for the response. I'll check to make sure I have the holder mounted correctly. It's weird, up until today, when I took it out to clean it, my situation was similar to yours. It barely stuck out and I was getting great detail. It seems like it has to be something I did.

x2 on the clamp it sounds like you have it too high

What exactly are you cutting??

The 60 degree blade is quite intense for sign vinyl or heat press vinyl. I normally use the 60 degree blade for flock or rhinestone templates.

Here are things to check for:

-cut strip look for deep groves and scratches -this means that your blade is way to far out
-take a toothbrush and clean the grooves the metal roller to make sure there isn't any residue keeping the roller from flowing freely

Ok, update. So I've had some more time to monkey around with my cutter. I *think* what I'm dealing with here is a blade with a broken tip. I say I think that's the problem, because even with good lighting, and using a magnafying glass, I still can't see the tip of this thing. I'm going to need a more powerful magnifying glass. I'm apparently getting old enough to need those glasses that sit on your nose to see close up things. I used to make fun of those. Anyhow, it looked like the very tip may have broke off. One way to be sure was to try a different blade. I had a clean cut 45 deg here, so I tried that. Seems to be back to normal. So, mystery solved.

Let that be a lesson to other folks that may be caught off guard by their crappy vision like me. I couldn't see a problem with this blade, and it never occurred to me that the problem may be my eyes. Off to the store to buy some of those stupid end of the nose glasses now...

Been there done that now I have a 30x loop on my desk and if anything starts acting up I look through the loop including looking inside the holder for little bits of stuck vinyl.  Glad you figured it out...

+1 on the loop had the glasses for a long long time.

I use 60* blades for sign, heat press vinyl, rhinestone material and am not happy with clean cut blades.  just my opinion.
Mike

It's funny you should say that. I've been very happy with the clean cut blades, and you're the first person I've seen post that doesn't like them. To each his (or her) own. ;-)