LX 5

[unreconstructed]

Seems like I read a post about someone sharpening the blades on an rotary cutter and getting comparable results to a RFM. Had considered doing that and wondered if anyone had any thoughts on the issue?

Thanks.

 

[N80]

I have an LX-6. It gets mixed duty, brush and grass. So I do not put an edge on it. If all you do with your LX-5 is cut grass then a sharper blade will likely give you a cleaner cut; but probably not as clean as a RFM. But if you do mixed cutting, a blade with an edge on it is going to get dinged up real bad and defeat the purpose.

 

[jbrumberg]

I agree with N80. Rotary cutters can get out of balance pretty quickly when the cutting blades start to lose material from knicks, gouges, chips, etc.. If you did sharpen the blades I would be real careful about keeping the blades the same weight. There have been a couple of threads in the past where posters sharpened their RC cutting blades and were happy with the results, and if I remember correctly there was an entry about the cutting blades losing their temper from the heat of blade sharpening. Just my $0.02- Jay

 

[unreconstructed]

Thanks for your input. I too had reservations about sharpening the blade.