hello I’m Neil - this is the dad delivers vlog it's uh where I get to try something
new each and every day and today I’m trying this this is a bit of a... I want to sit down but look
I look a bit stupid behind... behind the Flymo I know I’m going to commit to it
today I’m trying this: I’m trying to remove the blade from a Flymo hover mower and this
particular mower is no... I’m gonna stand up this is the Flymo simpliglide 330 and it's lovely
I’ve got a link in the description to... to the mower and to all my other videos
about this but I’ve never ever taken a blade off a mower or a Flymo before
so I’m going to try it now on camera step by step so you can follow along
you're probably aware of this but you need... you need a tool that came with the mower
bizarrely we've managed to keep hold of ours - these always get lost
and if yours is missing I’ve put a link in the description to one you can buy on amazon
and I’m also trying this - there are spacers that come with the Flymo simplyglide 330
which means that the... the blade is lower and that means your grass is shorter and I really like
the idea of shorter grass and doing less mowing I guess we should just dive in
it's got a strange hexagon shape on the bottom of this tool and that fits the bolt here exactly
I’m sure you could probably do this with a... with a spanner
but what I’ve quickly worked out is that you've got to hold
the... the spinny thing here by the round thing not obviously by the blade because that
would be quite painful I think and then you'll turn it anti-clockwise
like this
and the bolt is quite long so what I’ll probably do is take the tool off
and then just turn it by hand Have you done this before?
leave me a comment say hi it'd be good to hear from you
you might need to do this if you are actually replacing a Flymo blade
I’ll put a link to a brand new blade there ours isn't looking too good mainly because
I keep running it over all kinds of stones in the garden and Casper's holes
which are a challenge for me and the mower
but I’m going to stick with this blade and you can see it's just this could come off really easily
if you look even more closely there are some holes
around the edge of where the bolt goes which is where the spacers come in
I’ve got two sizes that came with this mower there's like a double width spacer and a
slightly smaller spacer I’m going to...
I want to go for the really short grass But I’m going to go for the wuss version just
to... just to make sure it doesn't hit any stones or paving stones
what's great with the spacer is that it's got these... these dots on
it's got these two studs and the two studs should fit in the two large holes there
and with my one there's there is a lot of debris in the... in the holes but if you
just push it in to where you think the holes are it... it fits snug and it's actually flush
with this uh spinning motor thing I’m going to put the blade back on
and of course there's a right way and a wrong way to put the blade
who said it had to be easy thankfully Flymo have put on one side “this side
to grass” is actually etched engraved in the blade so I’m going to keep that side up and it looks as
if the holes themselves they fit exactly on these studs on the spacer so that will stop the blade
moving around independently then I’ll put the bolt back in
and screw it up by hand I’m going to use the tool to tighten
up the bolts for the final few turns and I’m going to hold the circle thing so I don't slice my hand
I don't want to go too tightly and break the thing but I think that's tight enough
that's not budging so now we're good to go don't forget if you need these tools I
do have links to them down... down below in the description
this is my mower after changing the blades spacing it seems to work
it seems to be going I’m calling this a dad delivers success!
right here are all my other garden videos and thanks for watching good luck with your Flymo
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alright this is gonna be the proper one right