Diamond Mowers has increased the durability of its rotary mowers with improvements made to the dish and the knife bolts mounts with its new Tri-Hex Power Dish.
The new hex shaped knife bolt and hardened dish insert prevents the elongation of the knife bolt mounting holes in the dish. It also prevents excessive wear on the bolt itself, which eliminates knife tipping and canting. The Tri-Hex Power Dish will be standard on all Diamond Mowers dishes starting March 1st 2007.
What this means to you: Less maintenance (no more retorquing knife bolts), lower operating costs and increased durability.
Parts for the Tri-Hex Power Dish can be ordered from Diamond Mowers right now!
The old keyed knife bolt provided only .096 square inches of bearing surface area.
The new hex shaped knife bolt provides 3.372 square inches of bearing surface area, that's an increase of 3,400%!
The older style keyed dish has only a small surface area to hold the knife bolt in place to prevent it from spinning or loosening.
The new Tri-Hex Power Dish has hardened and replaceable 6 sided inserts which prevent the knife bolt from spinning. Click here for larger image
The old style nut on the keyed dish needs to be constantly torqued or it will back off the knife bolt and become loose.
The new castle nut with roll pin hammered through eliminates the potential for the castle nut backing out.
Old dish nut/bolt assembly. Nut is torqued onto the knife bolt and needs to be retorqued to prevent loosening.
The new Tri-Hex Power Dish has a roll pin hammered through the castle nut and the knife bolt, virtually eliminating the potential for the knife bolt from becoming loose. Click here for larger image
