4mil film

Can the regular ss olfa blade cut 4mil film. or do i need to use a different blade, if so, which ones?

Yes

Yes you can use the regular Ofla

However, do not slam and crease the sides like everyone else does. I see alot of people slam the 5-way on the sides and crease the film. When you do that, you mess with the performance of the film.

those 5 ways belong in the garbage.

I use the normal Olfa A 300 snap offs up to 8 ply. After that I don't want to know about the job.
devil

Of course when using the thicker "klingon" anti blaster films the recommender cutter is the Daqtagh

It can cut 16 mil, Sir....Everything depend from hand with this knife

Agreed.


A method we use is to miter the corners and stick it with a hard card... you will not crease the film, and it speeds up the positioning portion of the install

A ceramic cutter, used in the woodworking industry for shaving board edges, cuts through the likes of 15 mil like hot knife through butter. Use it with a portable wallpaper pasting table with wood edges and you can precut film to precise fittings. Laminate safety film dry to the wood surface of the table, clean cut the edges and place your piece to be cut SR to SR, measure, mark, weight it and cut.

Nothing worse than attempting to give S&S protection and in the mean time scoring the glass trying to cut through thick films. Creates a weak point in the glass. Precut anything over 6 mil to avoid the potential for glass scratches.

Pretty much how I feel too.

I don't worry about the glass. I just prefer precutting film that thick.

use a film handler

I've had the cutting heads on this machine shift during slitting operations on 8 mil film, throwing the cut off to one side. They are only good up to 12 mil and even then the weight of the roll is something to contend with, not to mention the thick film moving the cutting head, too.

I've never had a problem with any of that when using tha film handler. one thing that helps is haveing the taller risers because some rolls of film have the bigger cores and the rolls wont fit on there. Other then that they are tha jam.

i am having extreme difficulty getting my 8 mill cuts to look as sweet as i would like them to be,i fear i have much security film to install this summer.

If you're cutting the film on the glass, this will be.

Thick films really best be precut before applying... using a Filmhandler slitter (if you can keep the cutting block from straying) or tabletop and a ceramic cutter.

Just came from an exchange of ideas session with a large film concern in the Midwest and they experience the same with 8 mil cuts. Showed 'em the ceramic cutter and explained how to precisely cut, even for out of square windows, and there were plenty of light bulbs moments.

Cutting thick film on the glass risks scoring the glass at the edge, leading to unexpected or premature breakage or failure to remain in place once broken.