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Show New Type Sharpener Usable in Fields Will Sharpen Mower Blade While on Bar A new type of bay mower blade sharpener which makes it possible to sharpen the ordinary mower section sec-tion right in the field without even removing It from the cutter bar thus saving time and labor and making it possible to cut more hay faster, has been placed on the market mar-ket by the New England Carbide Tool Company, Inc. lliisaill The black tip of this new type mower blade sharpener Is made of oarboloy cemented carbide, hardest metal commercially available. avail-able. Mower blades can be sharpened sharp-ened quickly and easily In the field with this sharpener. The sharpener consists of a steel shank one-half inch square and about 5" long, chrome plated against rust and having rounded edges so that the tool can be carried safely in the pocket. The tip which does the actual sharpening is made of ultra-hard carboloy cemented carbide car-bide metal, which is attached securely se-curely to the steel shank. To sharpen mower blades with this "carbide tipped" tool, the edges of the blade to be sharpened are uncovered. The sharpener is held in the hand, palm down. The carboloy car-boloy tip is placed on the mower blade at about a thirty-degree angle, and drawn from back to front on the blade three or four times. This produces pro-duces an extremely sharp edge. Any small burr which many develop on the blade may be removed by drawing the carbide tip across the bottom of the blade. |