today on Steve Robb reviews we're gonna have some fun we're going to investigate whether you
see this powder coating on these more blades than I got from my lawn tractor well powder
coating should you put powder cording on there we'll go take a look at these blades here that
I bought well it's over a year ago and got them off Amazon smoking deal I'm gonna take a look
at the blades and I'm gonna show you exactly how they came to me and why powder coating is
not the way to go as far as I'm concerned and these blades apparently well the head offices
as far as I could see we're in Ontario and in Michigan and I think you're gonna get a good
chuckle okay when I show you how sharp these blades are let's take a look well let's take
a good look at these blades the first thing I'll tell you is the price was awesome the blades to
me look perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned they're plenty thick and everything else but I
want to show you here does that look at all sharp to you like there's nothing sharp at all now if
we take a look at the manufacturer here precision sharpened and balanced hardened and tempered you
know there's nothing sharp here at all but you know I read and here's a big divot out of this
one I read all the reviews and yeah some people were saying yeah they're not sharp and you can
understand and then one person said to me now if you take a look here you can see where they were
ground at one time and what they've done I think is just sharpen them and then put powder coating
over top and there's nothing sharp here right like this is dull dull dull and then I read one review
and it said they look dull but actually they're real sharp and I thought hmm let me investigate
this more so you know what I'm gonna do I'm going to take one of these blades and see if we could
scrape off this powder coating and whether it is actually sharp under there so let's try that okay
so there we go right there I got y'all zoomed in now I'm just gonna take my exacto knife and
let's just see if I could peel off this look look at all this stuff coming off I mean this is uh
is this too much or what I mean this is on there pretty thick especially at the end here okay well
guys there's nothing sharp there yet okay so let me just see if I can just just maybe I can take
some of this power cording off the other side too with the knife you know you shouldn't really have
to do that when they come to you they should be sharp right and like there's no way I'm sharpening
this with the knife I know that but I can't see that okay I'll go buddy I'll show you this right
now let's see what you think I'll check that out look at the powder cording that I scraped off just
on that edge right there and as you could see you know it's still not that sharp at all but I mean
can you hear that yeah she's a little bit sharp but this powder coating now that's not the way
to go so would I buy these blades again absolutely cuz you know what for me well I can sharpen these
so easily doesn't take you much time at all and the price that I paid for these are probably I'm
going to say a quarter of the price of the OEM and where does the OEM get there's made from I have
no idea either the only thing that did concern me is you take a look at that center hole the powder
coating in there is that going to be obstructing the exact fit on the hub I'm not too sure but I
really don't think so I'll let you know in the future you're going to see me put these on lawn
tractor this year hopefully and this would like to do I like to get a fresh set of blades and
just swip them out back and forth rather than well of course I've got to get the long tractor lift it
up take the blades off and sharp them right all I do is I bring them back to the city I don't bring
them along tractor home with me so we just thought I'd show you this here today and see what you guys
think about this powder coating I've never been a big fan of any powder coating but I guess it's
good marketing I mean they sell these blades a lot of them and when you take a look at the reviews on
Amazon yeah the one review that caught my eye was I thought they were dull but they actually weren't
yeah if you scrape off all the powder coating yeah there is an actual sharpened edge underneath there
but what use is that when they're supposed to come to you sharpened not with big globs of powder
coating hanging off the edges right okay so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen
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