Hello All,
This is my first post here so please be gentle. I am not a dog groomer just an average joe with a labradoodle. We shave our dog a few times a year so I bought a set of Oster powermax clippers. It came with a #10 blade and I bought an extra one. I've only done about 5-6 cuts on the dog and the clippers perform horribly. I took the blade off and found a little plastic piece that moves the blade back and forth. It came with two replacements of those but I'm not sure when to change it. I lubed the metal bar up with oster clipper grease.
I always oil the blade when in use. Here is the issue. I take the dog outside, oil the blades and start trimming. Its been about 2 months since the last time she was trimmed. She doesn't have curly poodle type hair its more like a golden retriever type. The clippers can't go more than 1" and start leaving lines as if it can't cut through the hair. I can't do slow normal strokes cause it just doesn't make it through.
Now I know a lot of this can be caused by me but is there any suggestions to getting longer smooth strokes? or are the clippers just in need of service? I don't have any other blades than a #10 and I'm fine with the length of the dogs fur once I get through it. Normally it would take me about an hour to trim the dog. But with the way the trimmers are functioning we're up to about 2.5 which I think is way too much. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
This is my first post here so please be gentle. I am not a dog groomer just an average joe with a labradoodle. We shave our dog a few times a year so I bought a set of Oster powermax clippers. It came with a #10 blade and I bought an extra one. I've only done about 5-6 cuts on the dog and the clippers perform horribly. I took the blade off and found a little plastic piece that moves the blade back and forth. It came with two replacements of those but I'm not sure when to change it. I lubed the metal bar up with oster clipper grease.
I always oil the blade when in use. Here is the issue. I take the dog outside, oil the blades and start trimming. Its been about 2 months since the last time she was trimmed. She doesn't have curly poodle type hair its more like a golden retriever type. The clippers can't go more than 1" and start leaving lines as if it can't cut through the hair. I can't do slow normal strokes cause it just doesn't make it through.
Now I know a lot of this can be caused by me but is there any suggestions to getting longer smooth strokes? or are the clippers just in need of service? I don't have any other blades than a #10 and I'm fine with the length of the dogs fur once I get through it. Normally it would take me about an hour to trim the dog. But with the way the trimmers are functioning we're up to about 2.5 which I think is way too much. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
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