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Sharpening Leabarjan Perforator
By Seth Brown

Happy Spring to everyone!  I've been plugging away with a Leabarjan #5.
I got it last April and have only really gotten to spend some time with
it recently.  It's taken some time to calibrate it well and I believe
a few parts are still missing to keep the tracking going well, but I'm
improvising solutions.  However, I'm starting to have "hanging chads"
and, if the hole punching isn't tedious enough, I now am going back
over the rolls with tweezers to tug these chads off.

I took the punching die apart and noticed there is a slight angle
to the punch.  I tried to follow that angle while dragging the punch
face-down across a fine grained aluminum oxide sandpaper.  This didn't
eliminate the chads while punching.  I'm nervous to do it wrong, so
I only slightly sanded it thinking it just needs a touching up like any
good tool does from time to time.

Any confident advice to sharpening this punch and die would be much
appreciated.

Yours in perforations,
Seth Brown


(Message sent Fri 15 Apr 2011, 23:45:21 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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