Spacing spindles with washers?

whitepony04

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D110. One of my blades sits slightly lower than the other, measuring tip to tip in center of deck. Can I use washers between the deck and spindle to correct this? The blades are new and straight.
 

Boobala

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D110. One of my blades sits slightly lower than the other, measuring tip to tip in center of deck. Can I use washers between the deck and spindle to correct this? The blades are new and straight.

Did you know that in WW1, when they mounted a rapid fire machine on top of the fuselage so a pilot could shoot down enemy aircraft , at first , they shot themseles out of the air ( machine gun hit THEIR OWN propeller... UNTIL , thy figured out how to make the gun ONLY fire when the blade was horizontal to the fuselage ( fast-bursts albeit) NOW ... do you think your blades will hit each other with your "modification" ...??
 

whitepony04

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Is there any detriment to using washers to lower the spindle slightly?
 

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Which way is it lower,are you measuring the blade tip on the side or to the front.
 

whitepony04

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If u point the cutting edges of the blades towards each other at the center of the deck, there is a slight difference (rotatated blades and same discrepancy existed) I took the spindle off and put 4 lock washers between the deck and spindle to lower one of them. They are now very close to being even.

The blades engage and sound fine, just need the grass to grow to see if I improved cut.
 

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Did you hit anything you may have a bent blade.
 

whitepony04

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The blades are brand new and I haven't hit anything. I replaced the factory mulnch blades with gators. One of the factory blades seemed bent because I was getting different measurements on each side of the blade with the deck leveling tool.
 

bertsmobile1

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Which blades are you using.
The round hole or the star hole.
Some times the star pattern gets a bit too much paint in the hole and does not sit as close on the spindle as it should.
And occasionally if you use an impact gun to do up the bolts the stars can get a bit skewed.
I am a professional & I have done it more than once ( to my eternal shame )
Did you replace the spindle bearings when you did the blades ?
Could be a tight bearing not properly seated
 
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