Hi, While looking at photos of Rover Heavy Duty machines, I am struck by the fact that quite a few photos show the blade belt turned leftways, so that the blade disc is running counter clockwise. But the way I have always used mine is with the belt on a quarter turn right (from point of view behind the engine), and so the blade disc runs in traditional clockwise rotation. That is in fact the way Rover showed it on their schematics. Rover made flat blades, so theoretically you could reverse them to cater for CW or CCW rotations. Would there be any dramas in running it the CCW way, e.g. could a constant left-wise rotation coupled with vibration and bumping obstacles cause threaded parts on the belt drive to come undone over time? It may be that Rover designed it to run both ways, or that was entirely coincidental. Anyway it has been enough to confuse me and cause me to ask why am I seeing photos that show the belt with CCW blade rotation? I guess it would be okay, so long as the operator remembered to turn the blades around the opposite way??? I think I will "go by the book".
