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12-2 Cutting height adjustment
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To avoid personal injury and damage by the cutting edges wear groves and handle the
reel and bedknife with extreme care.
1) Set the supplied cutting height gauge bar.
c
a
b
a. Small adjusting screw for the cutting height setting
b. Small adjusting screw for the bed knife angle adjustment
c. Small adjusting screw for the Groomer adjustment
(1) Set the "a" screw to desired cutting height.
(2) Set the included angle of the bed knife with the screw of "b" by referring to the following
table.
Example: When the angle of the bed knife is 5 degrees and 15mm of cutting height, use
12mm.
2) Adjust the height of the rear roller.
(1) As shown in the figure, apply the screw
"a" and "b" on the cutting height gauge
to the bed knife, and adjust the rear
roller. (Decide the position of the rear
roller on the basis of the bed knife
angle.)
(2) Loosen the cutting height adjusting nut
first, and then adjust the rear roller
according to the cutting height gauge.
(3) A t t h i s t i m e , t o a v o i d i n c o r r e c t
adjustment, do not touch the Front
Roller on cutting height gauge surface.
(4) Tighten the cutting height adjusting nut
securely after completing the setting.
Reel cutter
Cutting height
adjusting nut
Rear roller
b
a
Cutting height gauge
Front roller
3) Adjust the height of the front roller.
(1) Loosen the cutting height adjusting nut
for the front roller first, and lower the
front roller down to the cutting height
gauge.
(2) Tighten the cutting height adjusting nut
securely after completing the setting.
4) Repeat steps 2) - (2), (3), (4) and 3) -
(1), (2) on opposite end. Complete
adjustment to one end before adjusting
opposite end.
Cutting height adjusting nut
Front roller
Cutting height gauge
(A)
(B)
(
θ
)
Bed knife angle (
θ
)
Value of (B)
7°
Cutting height of (A) - 0.6mm
6°
Cutting height of (A) - 1.8mm
5°
Cutting height of (A) - 3.0mm
4°
Cutting height of (A) - 4.2mm
3°
Cutting height of (A) - 5.4mm
2°
Cutting height of (A) - 6.6mm
1°
Cutting height of (A) - 7.8mm
Set the bed knife angle as the basis of 5 degrees, and change it depending on the
*
situation.
