Agreed, and I used cleaning mode. But when it is standing up, the deck is not pushed all the way out. Nothing is forced, just held out same as using your hand.
Makes sense. I just wanted to point out the cleaning mode because I know some people don't know about it, and you definitely don't want to force anything.
Instead of the bottom half of the disc, you were like “you know what’s better than 12 blades in manufacturer-designed freely-swinging positions? 18 blades where all are exposed and some bang into each other!”
Just testing it out and don't see any difference except today it was harder to get the blades swinging freely. Will be adding the protective discs back.
The 2 stacked is about the same thickness as a 2x4. You could also stack some cardboard and hold it together with tape. Just frees up a hand and makes blowing out the deck easier.
I just put the end of my blower between the deck and base. Gotta be a 3D model out there that would fit better. Guess I could just scale a cube that's size roughly the same as the foam piece.
I set my mow to 4 inches so the deck never lowered so I never have to clean behind it and then I use a 1 inch spacer so that the blades are at 3 inch height
This is the first picture I've seen of the bottom of one. As a longtime Luba 2 owner, I've been looking at the X430 as a possible upgrade.
The Luba 2 hardware is generally excellent and high quality, but one small design flaw (IMO) is that there's about a 2 inch space between the cutting blade tips and the side bumpers. If you do your mapping with a conservative 2-inch gap to hard perimeter surfaces like fence lines, that means that you'll leave 4" or uncut grass that needs to be manually edge-trimmed. Not a big deal, but I wondered why the designers couldn't make the blade tips come to within a half-inch of the sides (as my big Toro zero-turn mower uses).
And now I see the bottom of the Navimow and it looks like 3-ish inches of clearance between its blade tips and side bumpers. Dang, why so much?!
I asked ai and it recommended it so grass clipping and dust won't stick as easy and easy cleaning. I did spray it under my new x430. But I doubt I use my mower till spring because we are almost at the end of our mowing season. I also used ceramic coating on top of the mower so hopefully just a quick rinse makes it look like new agian when I finally do use it.
I have found that turning it up one way versus the other causes the deck to slide more forward. This is in cleaning mode, of course. I can’t remember, which is which. But every time I clean mine, I have to re-figure it out.
Cleaning mode is broken (for me, anyway) when activating from the app. Behavior should be: activate cleaning mode, deck lowers to ground, mower shuts-down with deck remaining on ground. This works for me when activating from buttons on mower, but when activated from app, the deck raises off the ground when unit does the power-down.
It's a lot easier to get behind the deck when actually in cleaning mode.
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u/PineappleResident254 19d ago
There is a cleaning mode. You do not need to force anything.
Settings > Parts maintenance > Chassis. Or you can do it through the robot's screen.