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Re: (ET) Blower hooked up. Wow.

Well I'm starting to think about this. Technically I could buy the following: 

Agri Fab adapter
Agri Fab mounting plate
10 feet of hose
And that should do it. The mounting plate would attach to the top two bolts, cut out the hole for the adapter, and hook up the hose.
There's another thought: Instead of building out the trailer I could stick a 54 cubic foot leaf bag thing in it and run with that. If my cart is 10 cubic feet in size that would be equal to making a 5 foot tall net cage on it. Sure, why not?
Meantime I looked at my deck: The baffle is in good shape and it looks like I can remove the nuts so I could pull it and run the deck without one. Would still need the side reinforcing bar, but I have that from the old deck so I will re-use it. 

Possible.

On 8/12/2019 7:03 PM, weinreich frontiernet net wrote:
A little while back I saw an EZ Rake deck adapter on EBay. It may be gone by now though. Next thought would be a search for either a used or new one via EBay. As you probably know the ones in current production are plastic versus heavy steel of the originals. That should be okay as they are designed to withstand most impacts. What you will likely need to do is find one with the correct hose size and approximate intake opening an then it will be time employ some sheet metal skills to fabricate a flange between the deck and the intake. That is what I am doing. My part came from a Dixon 30" one blade deck that came with a complete collector system from a local lawn equipment retailer with back room "goodies"! Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> 

    On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:45 PM, Chris Zach
    <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
    Ok, so this evening I took the battery box off the back of the E20,
    hooked up an Anderson plug to the blower, put on the bracket, and
    mounted the blower to the bracket. It's heavy, glad it can be put
    together as two parts.

    With it in I spun it up on 36 volts. Not bad, fair bit of air, good
    sounding with a bit of a high pitch squeak (might be the rubber seals)
    and it spun down smoothly. Then I watched the impeller coast down and
    realized it was running backwards.

    Reversed the wires. WOW. Incredible air blast, smooth (can't feel any
    vibration at either the motor or the housing) and when I went around to
    check the intake I felt it pulling at my tightly fitting long sleeve
    shirt. Then I realized if I were wearing a loose coat it would suck
    that
    and my arm into the impeller and turn a good chunk of me into goo.

    This thing could make one hell of a margarita. I shut it down with a
    promise never to power it up again without a hose on the intake. It is
    *dangerous* and very, very powerful.

    Next up is to get a deck adapter and some hose. What's the best 6 inch
    hose, I don't want something weak as this thing really sucks.

    For the adapter I measure the mower hole as:

    8 3/4 inch long at the top
    10 inches long at the bottom
    5 inches tall

    The bolts in the top are as follows:
    3 inches from the top front is the center of the first bolt.
    First to second bolts is 4 inches
    2 inches rear bolt to back

    Or about 9 inches. Any thoughts?

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