(02-18-2022, 02:37 PM)LOOT Wrote:(02-17-2022, 11:29 PM)Neil4Real Wrote: So I've been using my 2022 Rocnel Sailor for a bit now. I like it a lot, takes some getting used to with the heft and angle, but it is great. Feels so odd grabbing my Paradigm 17-4 as that used to feel amazing, now it feels cheap since it is so light hahah!
I'm having an issue though. As I mentioned earlier, I thought the "Rocnel" and "Sailor" were supposed to align, as that was how it was sent to me. But, with everyone's help here, I learned that adjustment nob should be at "zero" when a blade is inserted, so it was just sent to me wrong as I was getting it dead on "zero" when I had the blade in and the labels facing opposite ways.
Now for the problem! I've noticed for the last few weeks that the adjustment dial would get further and further from zero when fully tightened with a blade. As of now, it is almost perfectly on 1 when I fully tighten it. I tried switching the labels so they were aligned, but that obviously through it super out of whack. What can I do? I've tried using a little bit of strength and it just won't go closer to "zero." Even without a blade, I think it would be almost 1 full number backwards, so V, but now its basically at 0!
I've pressed down on the springs and those seem to be compressing properly, I've checked that the plate really does look like it is fully down. It just seems odd that it would be perfect and now slowly shift away from that! Thanks so much!
Reach out to Murat on Instagram. See what he has to say. Point out your head appears to have been assembled backwards. The two might be intertwined. I doubt it because what you describe is "drift" in your settings. That seems kinda odd.
Are you playing with a bunch of different blades? Varying thickness may account for some of it. How does it align with a Feather? I think they are tuned to Feather.
I don't think my head was assembled backwards? When it arrived, the rocnel and sailor were facing the same direction, but from reading here and posting about it, I was advised to insert a blade with them aligned and then with them facing opposite ways, whichever lined up with "zero" would be the correct way. Opposite ways was spot on zero. This is how everyone's Rocnel, other than those that requested it be made so they face the same way, operate to my knowledge.
99% of the time I use Astras. After a couple of weeks I used Gillettes for about a week and then went back to Astras. The Astras were the ones perfectly aligned at zero, but I'll try other blades and see if maybe it is just odd blade tolerance. But to be at 1 or even in the middle of zero and 1... that'd be a pretty big blade lol.