Cheers BB,
Unfortunately the powder coating process was too far progressed - I picked the reel up this morning. The only saving grace is the only part I had done was the cutter reel, the rest has been hand sanded and painted. I will know better for next time!
For the weight of the mower, I hadn't thought about the additional weight being on one side of the mower - that is a good point, particularly given I plan to have higher cut heights than normal. We will wait and see the impact - sometimes it is good to experiment and report back the findings!
I dropped the mower and reel to the local mower shop today for sharpening and back lapping. Interestingly he said they laser cut the blade first, and then back lap it - I was a bit surprised by the laser cutting as I thought they would have just used a grinding wheel.
The other thing I learnt dropping it off is that you are best to also drop off the grass deflector and screws etc as once the reel is put in it is not that easy to get the deflector back in. I also forgot the reel bearing shields..... Oh well, back to the shop tomorrow with the missing bits.
