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SECTION K – Blade Holders
This short section belies Victa’s effort in developing blade
holders and blade designs that offered both safety and efficiency.

At this point in time – 1965 – Victa’s view was that there
were three distinct blade designs – cutting blades, side
discharge blades and rear discharge blades.

History would show that all these designs could be safely
combined into a single design – the fluted cutting blade –
and without any real loss of efficiency.

The big difference was in the choice of blade fasteners.
Victa’s early-design blade discs had cumbersome,
air-dragging long bolts running in bushes and protected
by felt washers and washer cups. It wasn’t simple nor elegant.

By the mid-1960s, Victa took advantage of purpose-designed
high-tensile shoulder bolts and tension washers for affixing
blades to blade discs. Brilliant!