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sharpening lawn mower blades news 06-01-2008
Posted by news on June 1, 2008, 11:26 pm
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 I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
to me. My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
on the blades



Posted by Bob on June 2, 2008, 6:14 am
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>I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
> to me. My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
> great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
> cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
> around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
> They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
> on the blades
To each his own, but a "great job", I doubt.
Bob-tx



Posted by Srgnt Billko on June 2, 2008, 8:58 am
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>
>>I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
>> to me. My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
>> great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
>> cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
>> around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
>> They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
>> on the blades

> To each his own, but a "great job", I doubt.
> Bob-tx
>

My thought exactly. But then I saw a guy checking out of the garden center
at a KMart last week - with a new blade - he had the old one with him to
match up. The old one had never been sharpened and wasn't really all that
dull. Plus he paid a lot ($15) for the new blade. I had just bought 3 JD
blades for a mower deck for $20 with a coupon off their website.



Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Hopper_= on June 5, 2008, 11:00 am
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Bob wrote:
>> I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
>> to me. My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
>> great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
>> cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
>> around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
>> They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
>> on the blades
> To each his own, but a "great job", I doubt.
> Bob-tx
>
>
I doubt too. I have a jig for my bench grinder that works well. I just
put new blades on everything though and should be set for life now.




--
Claude Hopper :)

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Posted by Bob F on June 4, 2008, 11:14 pm
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>I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
> to me. My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
> great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
> cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
> around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
> They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
> on the blades

Whenever I've sharpened blades, they need a LOT more than a "hand" sharpening.
The ends of the blade get pretty beat up.



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