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Survey Results
If you already have an MC Cable Cutter &
Pigtailer you should have received a self-return-addressed, stamped Survey from
us. Get a survey to fax or mail to us HERE
if you didn't receive one or it was lost.
Completed surveys earn a free pair of blades from us so please fill out your
survey and mail it today! Your answers help up make our machine an even
better value for current and new users. UPDATE: We will be sending out a
new, improved survey in April, 2005. Please watch your mailbox for it!
NEW!! Miscellaneous
Tips:
The following are some odds and ends that may or
may not be in our Operating Instructions or other publications...
- Safety Update!!!
Color the "on" portion of newer-style Main Power Switches RED
if it is not already. This helps remind you that the machine is
"live" with the switch on. With later machines, this
should already done for you...
- Older-style V-blocks were thinner and had a
tendency to sag if used continuously. A quick, inexpensive trick is to
adapt a 2-1/2" muffler clamp (or similar) as a "stop" to
counteract the "sag". Refer to the following illustration
found HERE. A trailer
leaf-spring clamp can also be used as shown HERE.
- Alternately, you can order a new V-block
(steel or thicker aluminum) which should cure the sag.
The following survey results are a summary of
what we've received so far and will be added to periodically. Also check
out the Customers page to see who has responded and
any quotes they may have.
- Many customers requested or have already added
some sort of length of whip counter.
- UPDATE: We
now offer a length-of-whip counter kit. More info is HERE.
- Our Response: We will
be adapting a counter to the feed side of the machine as an
option. This will be done in the coming months so please contact
us if you are interested in one for your machine. It will probably
be the model in this picture: (click to enlarge)
Testing has been done with
aluminum MC cable and the results look promising. The cost of this counter
with mounting brackets will be in the $190.00 range. Let us know if you
have an interest in getting one for your machine.
- Some have added a number of whip
counter.
- UPDATE: We
now offer a number-of-whip counter kit. More info is HERE.
- Our Response: We will
be adapting a counter to the machine as an option but it will probably
be attached between the frames so it won't necessarily count whips but
strokes instead. We may look into a whip counter as well but a
stroke counter will be easier to adapt initially. This will be
done in the coming months so please contact us if you are interested in
one for your machine. The cost should be in the $50.00 range.
- Some customers cut a bunch of whips at a time,
some cut just one then assemble it to the hardware, etc. in assembly line
fashion, "moving down the line". Some have their machine on
a cart and go room to room during major rewiring jobs.
- Many customers use their machines daily, even
those with two plus-year old machines! Some use their machine in
"spurts" using it everyday for months then there will be a period
of non-usage.
- 1500 whips a day is a common number according
to several customers.
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