Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well

["Dave & Deb" <daveb drizzle com>]

are you sure that motor is spinning in the right direction?  it is not 
uncommon
for this machines to have one or all the motor wired backwards!


>
>       With the gator blades on (and even when I put the original blades
> back on), the far right blade on my E15 was not cutting well. It seems
> that the motor wasn't spinning that one fast enough, and with the Gator
> Blades, the slow speed resulted in grass accumulating in the "teeth" on
> the backside of the blade, eventually stopping it from spinning 
> altogether
> (which then resulted in lots of grass building up around the blade).
>       I swapped all of the gator blades out for the regular Elec-Trak
> blades, and it cut somewhat better since it was at least spinning that
> right blade, and it couldn't accumulate grass in it, but it still didn't
> really cut the grass much - apparently spinning too slow (also the Gator
> Blades used quite a bit more power, especially as the grass built up in
> that blade, and I a couple times had the other mower motors shut off due
> to the thermal breaker cutting out).
>       So - I need to figure out why that blade isn't cutting well. It
> seems that the motor for some reason just isn't spinning it fast enough.
> What could be the cause of this? Perhaps worn brushes (but not
> *completely* worn such that it doesn't spin at all)?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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