Thank you for purchasing the grooved roller you need to choose the correct width roller at
purchase point for either a 20 inch machine (or 51 centimetre) or for a 43 centimetre machine which
is a 17 inch machine. At this time the grooved roller assembly is only available for those
two widths of machines. What you'll receive in the box is the assembly grooved roller;
you will receive two inserts which may actually be inserted already into the ends,
two 35 millimetre set screws with flat washers and spring washers and two inserts like this.
Because we've made this so that it will fit both the Kensington 17, Kensington 20, Balmoral 17,
Balmoral 20 and also the Liberty 43. There are some spacers here which will only be used for
the Stirling 43 and Stirling 51. If you are not fitting it to the Stirling you will not need
these spacers. I'm going to be fitting this to the Stirling so I'm going to be using the spacers if
you are fitting this and you will also need to use these longer screws. If you're fitting this
to a Liberty 43, a Kensington or a Balmoral you will just use the screws that you are going to
take out of the smooth roller and use those again for the fitment of the grooved roller so let's go.
Tools required; a 17 millimetre open-ended spanner and a 13 millimetre ring or open-ended spanner.
With the Stirling I can tip the machine back to make this easy to access the roller just
be careful with the petrol engine machines because when they tip back the oil it goes
to the underside of the piston and can cause problems so if you can just keep the machine
supported here so that you can operate on the front roller that would be good.
With the Stirling and the Liberty that's not the same issue and what I'm going to do is use the
two spanners 17 millimetres is going to hold the stub shaft still and I'm just going to undo the
small studs using the 13 millimetre spanner. I'll just leave that supported
17 millimetres is going to go here 13 here
if you're going to be fitting this roller this grooved roller to a
Stirling machine then there's no need for you to retain these two screws. If you are going
to be fitting it to a Balmoral, a Kensington or Liberty then you're going to use those screws
again so I'm going to leave that like so I have my insert which I've put into the end of the roller
and then I've got these two spacers which I'm also going to be using as well so put the 35 millimetre
set screw in with the spacer here
you might notice that I've already removed the scraper which isn't necessary you can
use the scraper in conjunction with this it just doesn't do an awful lot because you're
only scraping at the peaks and that's not where you would get a build up
and I've also removed the turf rake well
that's entirely personal preference anyway as to which one that you use.
So I'm using the spacer at the end
and that all fits snuggly
in between the carrier on the front roller assembly.
I'm just going to tighten those up using my 17 millimetre spanner just to finally
tighten that up.
You'll notice once that's fitted and all tightened up
that when this front roller sits on the grass that it does sit a little bit deeper the ground
pressure on the Peaks here is about four times as high as it is with this so if ground conditions
get really wet then this you might find actually sinks into the ground more I'll put this roller
back on when striping is really necessary and I really want to get really strong Stripes I will
use this but if I want to cut more grass because I'm not laying it all down then I will use this
roller and it will give a cleaner cut especially in very long or very short grass conditions or in
Kentucky Blue grasses and other POA type grasses which display and don't cut quite so cleanly this
will help with straight lining as well it seems to track so much more true but if I want strong
Stripes then I'm going to use the smooth roller. I hope this has been helpful thank you very much