hobie
Silver Member
I have a Country Clipper Jazee 1 with a 42" deck. I have only replaced the blades once before, changing them to mulching blades. The mulchers were a set of 3 15" blades. They had suffered a lot of abuse, and I recently ordered replacements from Pat's Small Engine. The new blades are Oregon brand, and looked nicer than the others when new. A friend was helping take the old ones off, and inadvertently removed some of the mounting brackets from the spindles. I got it back together with the new blades, but couldn't remember if the orientation of the blades was important.( On the Clipper mowers the deck flips up for cleaning, sharpening or blade changes. This requires detaching the drive belt from the motor, so orientation of the blades is changed during the re-attachment of the belt). When I engaged the blades the blade tips of the middle + outside blades hit. I removed them, could see no sign of why they might make contact, filed down the ends a tiny bit. They cleared each other when not under power, but as soon as I engaged them under power they hit again. I flipped the deck at least half a dozen times trying to figure it out, and nothing seemed to work. We tried aligning the blades after belt tensioning by jacking the whole mower up, tried having the middle blade perpendicular to others, they still hit! What is wrong? PS: All blades mounted with the notched ends up. The only thing I did that I had not done before, was to put a shot of grease into the lower part of the spindle when the blade mounting brackets were off.
