Setting the Tightness of ADJUSTABLE Hedge Trimmer Blades

Demonstrating how i roughly set the correct tension / tightness for adjustable hedge trimmer blades. Be aware you ideally need clean and free moving blades, a healthy and correctly greased gearbox and a correctly tuned engine to be able to set these properly and not have any issues.
Also make sure the lock nuts are working correctly and not coming loose.
Be sure to find out exactly what type of blades you have. Most newer hedge trimmers will have set blades meaning the nuts and bolts will be done up TIGHT. This is more for some older models which allowed adjustment.

[@patrickvennard838]

Do you put a little thread lock on the nuts just in case they back off?

[@RJLmachinery]

No never bothered with that, I dont have any blades anymore that are the adjustable style, they are all fully tightened nuts and bolts.

[@rickeykeeton4770]

Does that edger have spacers in it?

[@RJLmachinery]

Yeh

[@kahramantavukcuoglu8290]

do u know which type steel useing ? what is the code

[@RJLmachinery]

Not sure what you mean? What is your hedge trimmer?

[@rockyhampton6879]

What are those tools called

[@RJLmachinery]

What tools?

[@neilreed8598]

Why not just give a torque setting. That would be most helpful

[@RJLmachinery]

Every blade set will be different, so hard to give an exact torque spec 👍

[@Da_GrandiMan]

Great tip ! Thx ! (Liked n sub'd)

[@RJLmachinery]

Nice one 👍