The blades I've bought from my local SCAG dealer for my TigerCat 2 52 inch deck are .250 inch thick but were expensive (three blades for about $75) compared to what I've seen online as OEM replacement. The OEM replacement blades are listed at .206 inches thick. Is there that much difference in quality, or life of the blade versus the cost of the OEM from the dealer?
Thanks
If the manufacturers blades are .250" thick and the supposedly OEM replacement blades are .206" thick then they are not exact replacement blades are they ?
Now in some cases the thinner blades are made from a better quality steel with better heat treatment.
In others it is just a blade made for another mower with the same length & mounting holes.
No mower company makes their own blades so the blade making factory ( OEM ) will be making a lot of blades for a lot of mowers and a lot of after market suppliers.
Or to put it another way, a factory in say China makes the blades for 'CutsAll" mowers.
The CutsAll QC team inspect them all at the factory and rejects 50 % of them, the good ones get CutsAll stamped into them and a part number, but what happens to the rejects ?
They get sold on line as OEM blades in total truth as they came out of the same factory , made on the same machines as the original blades, but they ain't the same are they ?
Ever wondered how you get so many unbranded really cheap parts sold on line ?