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Information on Clipper Blades and Blade Care
Parts of a Blade
We Sharpen Any Blade That Fits Your Clipper
Regular or Wide Width

All brands of A5 blades fit all brands of A5 clippers, no blades are specific to clippers brands.  

Andis, Buttercut, AGS, Artero, Wahl, Furzone, Oster, Laube, Bucchelli
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IF YOU HAVE BLADES WITH BROKEN TEETH, THEY CAN BE RESTORED, PRICES ON THE MAIL-IN PAGE.
#30 BLADES WITH BROKEN TEETH WE WILL SHARPEN AUTOMATICALLY UNLESS YOU NOTE TO RESTORE IT.
THERE IS A PLACE ON THE MAIL-IN SHEET TO MARK BLADES WITH BROKE TEETH

Note: We don't test blades on comb attachments to see if they work. We suggest from experience to take a freshly sharpened blade, or a brand new blade, and skim the coat someplace to see if it cuts good. Then put the comb on the blade. If the blade cuts without a comb on, and doesn't with a comb, its not the blade, its the comb or clippers

So if you put a #40, #30, #15, #10, or #9 on a comb and push it through the coat and it just snags, something is wrong. You need to take the blade off the comb, push the cutter to each side while cleaning the hair from under it and then oil with blade oil (no coolants). Try the blade on the belly someplace by skimming it to see if it cuts with out the comb on it. We test every blade we sharpen on our clipper that has new parts, if it dont cut at your shop something is wrong.
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Wrong Way To Put A Blade On A Clipper
Proper Way To Put A Blade On Your Clipper

You were probably taught how to put a blade on your clipper by someone showing you, you didn't read your clipper manual and do that method.
To put a blade on properly, you have to raise the latch, push the blade against the clipper, and then release the latch so it can hook the front of the socket.

If you dont raise the latch, the blade may go on, but your doing damage to the hinge, the hook on the latch, and possibly the blade socket itself. Blades not going on the clipper could be your fault and not the sharpeners just because you never been taught correctly, or know an alternative way.

Here are two videos, one is the right way, and one is the wrong way. But you do it your way if you want. 

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Proper Way To Put Blade On Clipper and Why Its Important (Long)
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Blade And Comb Related PDF's
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Properly Oiling A Clipper Blade		Document
How To Check Any Blade On Any Dog		Document
Using The Ultrasonic Cleaner
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What to Expect From Freshly Sharpened Blades		Document
Problems With Comb Attachments		Document
Problems and Issues With Comb Attachments
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D Series Blades
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D Series Information
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Lubrication of D Series Blades
Cleaning The D Series Blades
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BLADE PLAQUE

Blade plaque resides inbetween the teeth of your blades, its there because you don't clean your blades properly. This plaque is organic and holds bacteria, virus and molds, and your disenfectant will not kill anything in it. 
Its your job to keep plaque to a minimum, you do it with a toothbrush and blade wash every day. If you let it go, it can be so thick the blade won't even go through coat. Please read the article it will shock you.
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Blade Plaque- How To Control It
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If You Don't Have Regular Blade Oil, This Oil Works Great And You Can Get It Anywhere
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How do you know if your clipper blade is good or bad, or is worth being re-sharpened? Do you have blades with broken parts, or you feel they are old and worn out?
Read this article and you'll know ! ------------>

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How To Tell If A Blade Is Bad And Can't Be Sharpened
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Do You Do Cats?

If you do alot of cats with #10's or 7F's please designate these blades for me. Its best to make sure the tension of these blades is at the high end of the tension spec 3.4# (spec is 2.5 - 3.5). If its at the low end  (2.5#) fur can get under the cutter and cause dragging when the blade heats up.
Also set the cutter back a little more so it will dig (3/32nds). If not, they may have trouble cutting and just skim over the fur in some of these cats with that fluffy fur. Make sure your clipper is 100% as well, a worn blade drive will not let the blade dig in cat fur. Have a new blade drive on when you do cats.
Sometimes as you know you just have to find a 10 that will work on a cat, but this helped me when I was shaving down cats all the time.


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This is the best ultra-sonic cleaner going. It's a commercial unit that  produces more sonic waves, and is 3 liters, better than those oval plastic units everyone seems to be buying. It costs about the same and is built alot better.
This unit is available from Amazon and is about the same price as the plastic units.

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Cleaning With H-42		Media
Cleaning Tools With H-42
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Fixing Rattling Blades		Media
Fixing Rattling Blades

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