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Blade Replacement

Installation Steps:

  1. Identify the 2 blades with the rounded corners
  2. Ensure that the nibed counter-sunked bolts are seated properly
  3. Place the blades with the rounded edges facing to the outside
  4. Position all the inner blades with bolts as illustrated
  5. Place spacers between the blades
  6. Apply light tension to the blades
  7. Confirm that the all the blades are well seated against the spacers
  8. Clamp blades thoroughly
  9. Install deflectors
  10. Place spacers for the mainframe in position
  11. Arrange the wrapping appropriately
  12. Inflate the air bladder to 80kpa
  13. Position the mainframe and parallelogram system
  14. Place all the flat washers
  15. Followed by all the spring washers
  16. Hand tighten all the lock nuts
  17. Tighten lock nuts with wrench
  18. Finally, torque all lock nuts
  19. Remove blade unit from the alignment tool
  20. Visually inspect that all the blades are lined
  21. If a discrepancy is found, do final adjustment
  22. The DirtWhacker unit is now ready to be mounted on a conveyor system

 

Secondary Cleaner Blade Installation Video