 Hey guys shave every 1,000 here this old Troy built lawnmowers not cutting real well Let's see if we can find out why okay, guys Any time you're going to work on the blade on one of these Go ahead Pop off the spark plug wire Because you don't want that thing Kicking over when you're if you're spinning that blade around You don't want it doing you know even just a fire one time, you know that could be bad Now this thing she's had this for several years, and she had this when we got together We only use it Like if something's wrong with a John Deere if it's down or something like that. We had to use it a couple times because our John Deere We had to Put new spindle bearings in it and new blades and all that well while we was waiting on the parts We had to use this my niece borrowed this a couple times when her mower was down It never did cut right. It's just kind of like laid the grass over Let's see if we can find a problem Okay, guys, I just flipped this thing up on its side. I don't know if you can tell But I can immediately What is going on with this? Okay, you can see this cutting blade You shouldn't see that It should be on the other side Now if I pull this Pull the string You're gonna see which way this is turning. Okay. Okay. It's turning counterclockwise, right? Now that's turning counterclockwise. It's going this way that blade cannot cut someone Has changed this blade at one time because it looks like when they did this doesn't need sharpen Let's get a closer image of that for you See that blade is fine and the reason why it's fine is because it's cutting on the wrong side So what we're going to do I'm not even going to sharpen this I might clean it up a little I Doubt it because it doesn't need it so What it's doing it's cutting here When it's spinning around that blade should be going this way So what we're going to do Let's go ahead and take this blade off spin it around. I'm not even gonna sharpen it It doesn't need it. It put it was they put it on their brand new But they put it on wrong. We'll get my gloves on Be careful. I shouldn't have to tell you this I ain't gonna I ain't gonna say that if you're not careful That's your problem Hate to sound like an ass, but you know it is people go Well, you need to put this those disclaimers in there. No, I don't I'm not showing you how to take fingers off showing you how to be careful. I Love these things is the way it should go now see when it spins this way See how the blade will now be cutting the grass So it sorry couldn't show you how to sharpen it But when you do sharpen these I'll show you something Only sharpen the sharp side do not sharpen both just take a little bit off of here, but I'm not gonna sharpen that it doesn't need it I mean I could clean it up with a wire brush or whatnot But I think it'll be fine because it's technically never been used because It was on backwards Or upside down or whatever you want to call it be careful When you're starting these boats in they are fine thread and You don't want to strip that out because if you do you're gonna have problems because that's the The main shaft there, so let's go ahead Oh, it takes do not over tighten it yours may vary But as you've seen this kind of pushed in it's got pressure Open this boat and that's what's keeping the tight now yours may have an actual lock washer Or something to that effect some kind of locking mechanism on it but I venture to say that That's all that was wrong with this little mower Was they had to blade on backwards now when it spins as you can see? It's a mulching blade, you know, so Scott it's all it's all covered up but Now as you can see the cutting edge will be coming around Cutting the the grass and this end will actually be blowing the grass out It also flips it up and Recuts it as it comes back down. This is mulching blade with mulching mulching mower, so There you have it We figured out why this thing never did cut right I'll bet it'll cut like a brand new one now because technically it's still a brand new blade because the cutting edge was never working So sorry couldn't show you how to sharpen that blade. I get everything out here that I was going That I was going to use to sharpen it with but it doesn't need it I mean Anytime you sharpen a blade you take metal off and why take metal off if you don't have to It every time you sharpen a blade it takes that much life off of it I understand that every year. Yeah, you have to sharpen it or if you hit something you have to sharpen it This case it does not need sharpen. I'm not going to take the metal off of it When it doesn't need it so there you go guys just a quick Thing make sure you get that on the right way make sure you know which way it's supposed to spin and which way that blade is going I Would say take a good look at how your old one comes off But in this case if we would have went by that we would have put a new one on upside down or backwards whatever you want to say so just make sure it's it's going in the right direction before you pull it off and Then once you do put it back on make sure the cutting blade is On the side that's spinning well the engine actually spins clockwise, but down here It'll be turning counterclockwise get you light on here one way to tell is If it does spin this way when you pull that rope if it spins to the left make sure your cutting blade is on the left Okay, if it spins to the right make sure your cutting blade is going to the right So there you go guys just a quick tip for you and Thanks for watching my videos and please comment rate subscribe check out my patreon page and I'll chat it you guys soon. 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