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Hey guys! Just got my hands on one of these vintage beauties a few weeks ago. Cleaned carb, new blades/blade cover, and pully in the recoil. Unfortunately, she cuts like garbage even with new blades. The center point is junk and welded in place. Have you guys ever heard of cutting the center point out and putting a new replacement point in? Just curious if this is feasible or should I count my my losses?
ill check it today. doesn't smell like its flooding and after 10min. in the heat it fires right up w/ no choke or prime. i could be wrong tho. ill let you guys know. thanks.
I just bought an Ardisam Eskimo 8900.
I do have a couple questions about the fine tuning. How do you know you are getting the right RPM's? Do you fine tune on the ice or at home? IMO I think the auger isn't spinning very quick but I have never dealt with my owning a gas auger and never paid much attention to how fast the blades are spinning when using others. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
I sharpen mine all the time. Mark the cutting edge with a magic marker and then using a fine Stone take off just enough to get the marker off. Depending on how bad the blades are you might go over them twice.
A fine stone should work good. Remember in your pictures you are showing the bottom of the blade. The side towards the top is the cutting edge. Those do look pretty worn,and a little more work might be needed. Even a medium stone over them before the fine stone. Just make sure to keep the same cutting angle of the blades.
Sharpen the angle shown on the first picture, the side that faces the sky when drilling... No matter how tempted, don't even think/ look anything on the side that faces the ice..<°)))>{
Yes the first picture is the cutting side and second isn't. The cheapest place I have found for new blades is Sportsmans Warehouse. An on-line store called Moreoutdoors4you sells them at a decent price as well.You don't have to use 2 different stones but if you have them it wouldn't hurt to go over the blades with the medium a little first.