How I am sharpening lawnmower blades.

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Dirtmechanic

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This little guy may well be 25 years old. Not sure when I bought it actually. Anyway it never fit a single mower blade I ever owned perfectly and while I could finagle it around for a balancing act I resolved to find a better way in honor of the new John Deere S170 that replaced the L130. This afternoon I spent an hour assembling a jig for the parts. The kit was roughly $85 from amazon. It has much more accuracy for blade angle, a feeler for bent blade, and a ball bearing cone to check balance on the blade. I have to do 3 blades on the new rig but will buy another set eventually to keep sharp, just like having spare belts and so forth also turns out to be a good idea. Also I suspect I can figure a way to use it on a variety of other tools. This machine is designed around the use of a sanding flap disk on a grinder that is attached to the metallic arm. 20240512_185520.jpg
 
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In spite of the fact that I have been looking at this for about ten minutes, my brain will not decipher exactly how it works. It would be good if you could put it together in a video and show us just how to work it. Maybe it will be more apparent to the male members of the group, and maybe it's everyone else who ''gets it'' except me ? 🥴
 
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In spite of the fact that I have been looking at this for about ten minutes, my brain will not decipher exactly how it works. It would be good if you could put it together in a video and show us just how to work it. Maybe it will be more apparent to the male members of the group, and maybe it's everyone else who ''gets it'' except me ? 🥴
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Haha well your request has the additional aspect of dealing with the underpinnings of a riding mower deck. But fear not! As a man who has been married 25 years I am almost used to requests that take far more work to prepare than actually execute..emphasis on "cute". I will endeavor to perservere.
 
I think I've had about 6 different riding mowers and am certainly familiar with the complex manner of the belts on them for a start. My Countax K series was an absolute nightmare to change the belt on. I've still got an old deck from that hanging up in my lock up. Sharpening blades is usually just a nasty tedious job, so I've never bothered to attempt it. Those kinds of things are best left for the nice man who does the annual service on the ruddy machines.
 
Tetters said:
I think I've had about 6 different riding mowers and am certainly familiar with the complex manner of the belts on them for a start. My Countax K series was an absolute nightmare to change the belt on. I've still got an old deck from that hanging up in my lock up. Sharpening blades is usually just a nasty tedious job, so I've never bothered to attempt it. Those kinds of things are best left for the nice man who does the annual service on the ruddy machines.
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I looked up that countax and that looks like a really cool machine that we do not seem to have across the pond!
 
Finally got to use the jig. It suits my need for perfection while teasing me that I could do better. Just getting to know it so no judgement yet though it is more accurate by far than my previous freehand methods.20240519_153318.jpg

Haha -a mechanic friend said I need help!:LOL:
 
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I have been informed America is hosting the Cricket World Games this summer. We have no idea how to play yet it is a game of world wide popularity.
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It's second nature to all us Brits :)

# You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
# Each man that's in the side that's in the field goes out and when he's out comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
# When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
# When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
# Sometimes, there are men still in and not out.
# There are men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
# Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter if they're in or out.
# When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished
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