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Mickey_Fx
Veteran Member
How you doing Winston?
Think it is time to sum this thread up. It appear my tiller is "special" as I suggested in my initial post but not so special that it is the only one like this.
My tiller needs the tines with the profile found on the 12mm ones but uses 10mm hardware. I suggest before making a purchase of tines, look closer than just the bolt size. I see no reason why if you need the profile of the 12mm style but have 10mm hardware like I do, buy the 12mm style and just use the 10 hardware. Should cause no problems and is a lot easier than having to modify the 10mm style to make fit. I'm only half done and have put in more than 2 hrs getting those tines installed.
As I'm the first case with this problem, the dealer said they weren't going to make the ordering process any harder by adding this variation in to the equation, so buyer beware.
Oh, something else. Have started putting on the opposite formed tines and as I'm looking, I see more than one of the tines with the bolt hole not centered. These tines are almost too hard to drill using HSS bits. The easiest thing here I think is to grind the edge of the tang so there is more room, slop, for the tine to fit into the mount pockets and thus providing the needed clearance so the 10mm bolt will fit.
Hope this thread has served some purpose.
Think it is time to sum this thread up. It appear my tiller is "special" as I suggested in my initial post but not so special that it is the only one like this.
My tiller needs the tines with the profile found on the 12mm ones but uses 10mm hardware. I suggest before making a purchase of tines, look closer than just the bolt size. I see no reason why if you need the profile of the 12mm style but have 10mm hardware like I do, buy the 12mm style and just use the 10 hardware. Should cause no problems and is a lot easier than having to modify the 10mm style to make fit. I'm only half done and have put in more than 2 hrs getting those tines installed.
As I'm the first case with this problem, the dealer said they weren't going to make the ordering process any harder by adding this variation in to the equation, so buyer beware.
Oh, something else. Have started putting on the opposite formed tines and as I'm looking, I see more than one of the tines with the bolt hole not centered. These tines are almost too hard to drill using HSS bits. The easiest thing here I think is to grind the edge of the tang so there is more room, slop, for the tine to fit into the mount pockets and thus providing the needed clearance so the 10mm bolt will fit.
Hope this thread has served some purpose.