OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums General Discussion Forum Show and Tell Deutscher H660 26" walk behind w/B&S Intek 10.5hp - needs TLC,now what?

Hi Mr Western,

Thanks for the reply.

See attached pix, freshly taken of the spindle bearing plate location, above & below the deck. So mine is below, hs no signs it's ever been moved or modded.

Point taken on any blade being able to be damaged - but I've literally got brand new blades out of the packet, so thats not a factor in terms of the cut height - I mean they'd have to be obviously damaged to have that difference int he cut height.

No dramas with the Deutscher info on the step, I appreciate your being so thorough. :-)

Thats a good idea with the blade plate, adding extra holes, to avoid having to mod those larger blades - only thing is the holes in the blade carrier as not a simple hole, rather the circular on one side and flat/straight on the other to stop the bolts from turning one they're put in. Not sure how I'd go with fabricating one of those, they're also reinforced with an extra collar of metal around them for reinforcement. I mean if you go down that path of those bigger stepped blades you're up for the cost anyway - so I suppose using the easiest way is logical - and that would be cutting them down using the existing holes in the disc carrier. Enlarging the holes on the blades from 13mm to 16mm wouldn't be overly hard.

Now as chance had it I had my 2nd use of the H660 last evening, was much better than originally - gloved up to avoid more blisters (which are still healing from last time) - a mentioned I'd placed a LOWER cut selection slot on the slide area. The height this cut at was pretty much bang on. But yeah was an issue quite regularly that the skirt would cause issues dragging, wasn't the end of the world but Deutscher have this too low 10-20mm up and would be perfect.

Only real way to do this is either a spacer or the stepped blades, seems plain and simple choice - as I did consider cutting 10mm off the bottom of the skirt and then quickly ruled that out as utter stupidity,

Cheers, Nick

PS. Max in looking for some more stepped blade options I've gone back to one you recommended earlier:
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/120211/re-deutscher-h660-26-walk-behind-w-b-s-intek-10-5hp-needs-tlc-now-what.html#Post120211

In one of those recommendations/pix the step on the Orion blades is stated as 10mm, which is viable for me = 20mm would be nice but thats very rare and the HUGE slasher blades you linked earlier that had a 22m step are 250mm long meaning I'd have to cut too much off them (to get to the 115mm effective length needed). Tad too much mass on the end too - would be a worry.

But the Orion ones seem workable - but thats a very rare listing that shows the step size - none of the others seem to - makes me wonder if 10mm is the standard step on SKIT33 and all the other blades for them or if thats a one off set with a larger step. Might have to go in to a few shops and eyeball them As online you can't really tell but pix would make me think it's possible they all have a 10mm step .