Blades on a box blade

[npalen]

It would not be impossible to make some cone shaped washers to make up for the countersinks being too deep. Would require a lathe, however.
Bet you could almost make some common flatwashers work by sucking them down into the countersink with a torque wrench on the bolt to take up the extra space.
Had to throw my two cents in here, couldn't get a word in edgewise above.

 

[Catman8]

It would not be impossible to make some cone shaped washers to make up for the countersinks being too deep. Would require a lathe, however.
Bet you could almost make some common flatwashers work by sucking them down into the countersink with a torque wrench on the bolt to take up the extra space.
Had to throw my two cents in here, couldn't get a word in edgewise above.

Thank you for your suggestion, very helpful and appreciated :thumbsup:

 

[Xfaxman]

I have been communicating by PM with Travis:

Originally Posted by EverythingAttachments

I am no longer responding to this guy on TBN.
This is ultimately the resolution, as I said on the forum: From now on, we will send all of our products out fully assembled and painted so that any possible issues will be caught prior to shipping.

There are slight variances with the recessed holes in the cutting edges. They are US made edges...the best we know of.
If he will simply tighten the cutting edge with the bolts, it will be tight and perform perfectly as it should and always has for the thousands of box blades that have shipped prior to his.
It will not move. We have some here just like it and you have to raise them up with a forklift and get about 4 inches from it to see any sort of minuscule, trivial gap.

To please the future customer that will never see this gap unless they see the ridiculous thread started by mr cat, we will be making the holes in the moldboard slightly larger, but still round, so the square will fit through. It will be a tight fit and will probably require a hammer when you change the edge.

Feel free to share the nice information with the thread. I am not getting back in it. This dude is craaaaazy left field & I have been too busy to humor him.

Things written in a post can be taken the wrong way or different ways by the person reading it.

So Travis is out of this thread.

 

[ovrszd]

Problem has been resolved. From now on, we will send all of our products out fully assembled and painted so that any possible issues will be caught prior to shipping.
Travis

Have you tested a bolt thru a cutter to see if the square shoulders protrude? Still wondering if somehow the bolts and the cutter aren't a match??

Are your cutters all the same thickness? If not, are the same bolts always used?

I'd also wonder if any EA BB owners have removed a cutter for any reason and noticed a similar problem?

 

[ovrszd]

So Travis is out of this thread.

For the second time.

 

[Catman8]

For the second time.

If you read post # 153, that is what Travis is telling us, all there blades are like the one I have, and even if the square shoulder is being wedged into the hole and there is a gap between the cutter and the back plate that it is still tight and should not matter, but in an effort to appease us, they will start cutting the holes bigger in the box scraper to accommodate the square shoulder protruding out the back of the cutter.

 

[Catman8]

I have been communicating by PM with Travis:

Originally Posted by EverythingAttachments

I am no longer responding to this guy on TBN.
This is ultimately the resolution, as I said on the forum: From now on, we will send all of our products out fully assembled and painted so that any possible issues will be caught prior to shipping.

There are slight variances with the recessed holes in the cutting edges. They are US made edges...the best we know of.
If he will simply tighten the cutting edge with the bolts, it will be tight and perform perfectly as it should and always has for the thousands of box blades that have shipped prior to his.
It will not move. We have some here just like it and you have to raise them up with a forklift and get about 4 inches from it to see any sort of minuscule, trivial gap.

To please the future customer that will never see this gap unless they see the ridiculous thread started by mr cat, we will be making the holes in the moldboard slightly larger, but still round, so the square will fit through. It will be a tight fit and will probably require a hammer when you change the edge.

Feel free to share the nice information with the thread. I am not getting back in it. This dude is craaaaazy left field & I have been too busy to humor him.

Things written in a post can be taken the wrong way or different ways by the person reading it.

So Travis is out of this thread.

I'm very disappointed in the TBN members, you could of all told me that this was a mental health issue, and all along I thought it was a cutter alignment issue. :confused2:

 

[ovrszd]

If you read post # 153 that is what Travis is telling us, all there blades are like the one I have, and even if the square shoulder is being wedged into the hole and there is a gap between the cutter and the back plate that it is still tight and should not matter, but in an effort to appease us, they will start cutting the holes bigger in the box scraper to accommodate the square shoulder protruding out the back of the cutter.

The cutter can't be tight on the BB if there's a gap after tightening. Using your product as an example, the cutter isn't designed to use that bolt, or the bolt isn't designed to be used with that cutter.

When I swap grader cutters I wire brush the moldboard and the backside of the cutter. Then using an air hose I blow away the dust. I need the backside of the cutter to be tightly mated to the front side of the moldboard or they will work loose. I understand that I'm stressing the cutter more than a small BB. Everything should match up without compromise.

 

[ovrszd]

I'm very disappointed in the TBN members, you could of all told me that this was a mental health issue, and all along I thought it was a cutter alignment issue. :confused2:

The person with the problem is always the last to know........

 

[Catman8]

The cutter can't be tight on the BB if there's a gap after tightening. Using your product as an example, the cutter isn't designed to use that bolt, or the bolt isn't designed to be used with that cutter.

When I swap grader cutters I wire brush the moldboard and the backside of the cutter. Then using an air hose I blow away the dust. I need the backside of the cutter to be tightly mated to the front side of the moldboard or they will work loose. I understand that I'm stressing the cutter more than a small BB. Everything should match up without compromise.

I don't think EA should be cutting bigger holes in their box blade to accommodate for the square shoulder, they should be calling the blade manufacturer and tell them to come pick up their over drilled product and bring us properly manufactured cutter blades. As you pointed out, there needs to be enough material so the shoulder does not protrude past the back of the cutter. Travis mentioned in his PM above that you will need a hammer to change the blades, if they are installing them like we have discovered, you bet your going to need a big hammer.