Took me 45 minutes to figure out why my clippers were pulling hair...

Had this nagging issue for a few days where my Wahl Seniors were just yanking hair instead of cutting clean. I cleaned them, oiled them twice, checked the blade gap... nothing worked. Finally I noticed a tiny dent on the bottom blade where I dropped them on the tile floor last week. That little dent was catching the hair and messing up the cut. I spent way too long messing with adjustments when the fix was ordering a new blade set for like 12 bucks. Has anyone else had a weird mechanical issue that took forever to troubleshoot?

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ryan65324d ago

Ah man, those tiny dents are the worst.

bencampbell24d ago

Those tiny dents are the worst" is right... I had a similar thing happen with my old Oster 76s where I swore I'd cleaned everything but it still felt like they were chewing my hair. Turns out there was a tiny burr on the tension spring that was catching the blade just enough to throw the whole thing off. I spent two weeks blaming the blades before I found it with a magnifying glass. Ended up just filing it down with a nail file and it's been fine ever since. That's the thing about clippers, sometimes it's the smallest weird little thing you'd never think to check.