Hello List, I'm on my 3rd set of 18' blades and I'm using metal hubs. I spend untold hours making sure each blade is carefully crafted, ensuring length width and all that.
I have water jet hubs, exacting bolt patterns....
BUT THEN, once I put the blades in the hub, there is ALWAYS something wrong with the 120 degree point at the end of the blades where the 3 meet in the middle..... it doesn't matter if i take a year to measure and cut they never meet perfectly and I end up cutting the point off till they slide in.... Then I clamp all three blades on the hub, measure the tip spacing which is now off because of the fit at the dead center of the hub. and I drill and bolt. I can NEVER get a perfect fit because of the point cut at the blades root where the 3 merge together in the hub....
Is there some magic to this? and easier way to measure and cut perhaps? DanB any thoughts?? that 20ft machine must have been near impossible to line up!
Because of very small problems at this point cut, the tips are always a few inches closer or farther away from each other.

Does the few inches matter? does 6 inches matter?
Is there an untold error factor in blade top spacing that is generally acceptable for no worries? I know if the tip spacing is in error the the blades being 120 degrees apart is also in error.
Any advice or alternative methods on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jamie |
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