Installing The Verticutter Blades - Toro Reelmaster 5010-H Series Operator's Manual

Installing the Verticutter
Blades
1. Assemble a blade (Figure
2. Assemble a large spacer.
3. Do not invert the reel blades when assembling them
on the reel shaft.
Note: If the blades are inverted, the blades that are
in use, (rounded) will be mixed with the sharp ends
of the blades which were not in use. This will cause
unsatisfactory performance in the verticutter reel unit.
Attention should always be taken when disassembling
the verticutter blades from reel.
4. Install the next blade clockwise so that the index
reference hole (Figure
blade hole by one flat of the shaft.
1. Index reference hole
5. Continue to install spacers and blades in this manner
until the full complement of blades have been installed.
Note: When properly assembled, the blades will be
staggered in such a manner as to appear like a helix.
6. Install the small spacer to the shaft.
7. Apply Blue Loctite 242 to the nut. Install the nut onto
the shaft (machined side of the nut toward the spacer),
and tighten it to 109 to 135 N-m (80 to 100 ft-lb).
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