Well Hockey Puck, I lost my detailed reply. Yes the 8-32 was an expensive little single blade beast, man she would cut.
On my problem, the green machine with sort of dull wore out blades, cuts twice as good as my yellow and black machine with good blades.The JD cuts, whilst my Poulan sort of beats the grass to death,is it blade speed or lack of torque on the low compression 24 Hp Briggs and stratton engine"Intek" engine? I Guess, I could fabricate a copper sheet head gasket for the Briggs that is thinner to up the compression some( why in the Heck are they running a 6 to 1 compression ratio anyway ? The old twin bladed craftsman I had with the 20 HP single cylinder " Briggs -Dana engine ran very good , cut fine and didn't use near as much gas.
I know you get what you pay for( I went through that with a Dodge Dakota pickup{ probably the only vehicle produced that cost the parent company money to dumb down- no more Rams for this old Boy}
Yes I know I shouldn't expect a very good cut on the hilly terrian that is my yard, but dang it ,I was expecting better from a new mower( maybe some of Heidi's goats or cows are the answer):confused2: