I Appreciate this video very much as my old manual lawn mower needed this ‘tune up’. A quick addition to this process I learned today was to tighten the blades like you did where they barely would turn. Then spray WD40 on a paper towel or rag and smear it on all the blades and the cutting bar which will allow the blades to rotate easier at the tightest adjustment. 🙌✌️🤩thx, All my best!
Hmmm.... Cool. The reason to take off the wheels is to remove the gear. Is it possible to place one wheel back on to use it to spin the blades manually? I don't like using the drill to do that.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt I just sharpened my american mower, i swapped the gears and pushed the mower backwards on my driveway, swapped them back - worked like a charm!
13:30 Everything one needs to know about this video is at that timestamp. I appreciate that you tried to help people, and while a fair amount of info here is sound...it's not demonstrated well and I see acres and acres of mutilated grass dotted with the rusted bodies of formerly fine reel mowers, violently thrashed in fits of misplaced rage. It's not the mower's fault and I hate to see them suffer. They just needed someone to love them properly, and here we failed them. heheh
Well it's more like scissor blades than knife blades. Like scissors in that when the front edge of the reel blade comes in contact with the knife bed (the straight bottom plate) it slices. It's the front edge of the blade that is first to hit so by sharpening backwards the front edge is now the last part to hit the knife bed. Which is how you would sharpen it manually. The blades and knife plate have to be sharpened together or it wont cut right. It's not so much how sharp each is as it is how well the fit together. Scissors, unlike a knife, require both blades to work together to make a clean cut.
"You can see how well it cuts this paper" - proceeds to tear and mangle the paper among the blades. dude, it's supposed to cut like a hot knife through butter, not a rusted butter knife through granite.
If you don't have the drill, you swap the tires left to right, it runs in reverse with forward push. I pushed my up and down the yard for a few laps and it cut like new.
Btw please don't state this is the proper way to sharpen a rotary blade ever again. As I watch it, the more I get pissed off my seeing someone talk about something they know knowing about.
Soooo correct. When I started to watch one of the first things he said that told me everything was his little tube of valve something or other... I mean at least make it look like you know what your talking about.
Thank you, you're right and i will consider that in future videos. To answer though, valve lapping compound is abrasive enough (like metal polish) to put a new edge on the blade. Due to the length of the blade and odd shape attempting to sharpen with anything else than using the mower's own cutter bar will result in uneven sharpening and gaps between the blade and cutter bar which will result in uncut grass blades.
