Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well

["Tim Humphrey" <hump evgrin com>]

Poor connections on the motor will cause it to run slow and overheat.

Possibly the fiber clutch is slipping causing the blade to run slow under 
load. Unplug the deck, grip the clutch body
with some slip-joint or vise-grip pliers and make sure you can't turn the 
blade easily by hand.

Do you have rear discharge? No, your mower deck, not you ;-) .  If so then 
the grass being thrown to the right blade
wouldn't be so much of an issue, still an issue but not as much.

Believe it or not, the breaker on the motor can also be wired backwards 
which will cause it to trip early. (Even
though there is no polarity indication on the breaker) You said the other 
motors were tripping early, right?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
> [mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Michael S
> Briggs
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:54 AM
> To: Paul Abendroth
> Cc: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Subject: Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well
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>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Paul Abendroth wrote:
>
>> Michael S Briggs wrote:
>>> ... resulted in grass accumulating in the "teeth" on the backside of
>>> the blade,
>>
>>>     So - I need to figure out why that blade isn't cutting well.
>>
>> Check to see that motor is rotating the right way. The wires to that
>> motor could be reversed.
>
> Nope, I definitely wired it up right. I checked the spin direction of 
> all of
> them by turning them on with the deck tilted up so I could see (I thought
> that might also be the issue when I first observed the grass 
> accumulating in
> the back of that blade).
>
>
> Thanks,
> MIke
>
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