I’ve been retraining our team to run a 60-second dry-cut calibration on our Santinelli each morning and to clean the chuck jaws before every block; after two weeks, our redo rate on high-base jobs dropped from 6% to 2%. What quick maintenance or training habits have given you the most consistent results on your edger or tracer?
jobs dropped from 6% to 2%. What quick maintenance or training habits have given Agree on the timing — zeroing the tracer first thing with a flat demo lens on our Santinelli, right after the 60‑second dry-cut, made sizing way more consistent for us (ugh, probe drift drives me nuts), just watch for a weak stylus spring or it won’t hold. Do you also do a quick 50.00 mm ring check to catch creep?
Short answer from my side: I’m seeing the same pattern — one concrete thing that helped was writing down the exact handoff and timebox it to 15–20 min. Does that match what you’re running into?
‘60‑second dry‑cut’ is great; set clamp to ‘soft’ on high‑base Santinelli jobs. Log pad age?
Along with your “clean the chuck jaws before every block,” the biggest win for us was pre‑warming pads/blocks about 10 seconds and a quick 91% IPA wipe on AR; our Santinelli stopped slipping on high‑base and axis drift dropped. Do you also log block heater temp and pad lot, @amarks_88? Only caveat: swap the chuck rubbers monthly or that 1‑minute morning calibration won’t stay tight.