Slicer Sharpening

[VSS]

Yeah I’m wondering if the previous owner just ran the blade into the ground. Is it possible to recover it somehow, or just time for a new blade?

The more I look at your photos, the more convinced I am that you've got it assembled wrong. The orangey coloured grinding wheel looks like it's coarser. Is that the case? If so, it should be in contact with the back of the blade, not the front. That's the wheel that grinds the bevel. The finer wheel just removes the burr (raised by the coarse wheel) from the front of the blade.
The blade rotates anti-clockwise. Therefore the wheel on the left must contact the back of the blade, and the wheel on the right must contact the front, otherwise the burr won't be removed on the final revolution of the sharpening process.

 

[Freeforester]

Of no help so apologies, but in using a slicer for twenty years, I never once needed to sharpen it, and it is still slicing Carpaccio and smoked venison etc to wafer thin, under 1mm thickness.

As Tim suggests, if all else fails, read up on the instructions, if the slicer was not new but second hand, it may well be that the sharpening gizmo has been assembled incorrectly.

 

[Dave Lakes]

Ok in the end I took it to a knife sharpener who put a decent edge on it. He said it had dulled too much for the normal attachment to sharpen it, as they’re really just for honing. So problem solved, and I’m now slicing away!