Thread: Cub SLT 1550
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Old 08-15-2017, 07:20 PM
jim nicholson jim nicholson is offline
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Default Cub SLT 1550

I have a Cub SLT1550 with a 50" deck and I have been dissatisfied with the discharge of the deck chute. I was reading someplace where residential mowers have a blade tip speed of around 18K FPM. I checked mine with a tachometer and did the calculations and came up with a little over 15K FPM. I would like to get a couple more thousand FPM out of it but to do so I will have to have a bigger clutch pulley or smaller spindle pulleys. The blades are sharp and the deck is kept cleaned out. Does anyone have a similar problem and what was the fix..
Jim
By the way the drive is a single belt system.
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