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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Just make sure they're balanced before putting them back on!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unbalanced blades cleans the inside of the deck though via vibrations

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

And sometimes the outside of the deck via through-deck action!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where's your sense of adventure?

/s

[–] NegativeInf 35 points 3 months ago

In the side yard, with my legs.

[–] someguy3 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Uh does sharpening really do enough to unbalance it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One or two times probably not but more than that likely will. Especially if there were major dents you grinded away. You can buy a cheap plastic tool to check the balance and then just grind away from the non blade side to balance it out.

[–] someguy3 2 points 3 months ago

If you grind the same on each side without trying to get rid of any dents, it would still add up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It can, yes. Remember these are rather heavy blades spinning really fast, so it doesn't take much.

[–] linearchaos 1 points 3 months ago

It really depends on your definition of balanced and how bad someone is at sharpening.

The blades are torqued down on there, if it's a combustion engine mower, nothing's you do to this blade sans taking an inch off is going to make much more vibration than the motor will itself.

The biggest worry is that you put enough vibration into it too cause it to loosen the blade.

If you're even half reasonable sharpening you're just taking off a fraction of a gram.