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jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
Joined: Feb 10, 2010
Points: 539

2 piece snowblower deflectors
Original Message Oct 4, 2012 8:29 pm

Does anyone here, by chance have a snowblower with a two piece deflector. Similar to what's on the Yamaha YS928J.
I want to put one my Ariens. I have the two deflectors made already. So what I really could use are a few close up photos of
the linkage/arms that tie both deflectors together. That allows them to move in tandem.
I have found other photos of the Yamaha's set up but none that give me a real good look at the arms.
I could probably work out the pivot points on my own. But a few photos would sure cut down on time
involved in the trial and error method.

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longboat

Joined: Feb 11, 2009
Points: 103

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #10 Oct 10, 2012 3:46 pm

This discussion brings up a thought for driving the evolution of snowblowers...

Wouldn't it be more efficient to place the chute opening on a rotating collar around the impeller? Need to blow to the right? Rotate collar to the right. Need to blow to the left? Rotate collar to the left. In many cases, you wouldn't need a deflector at all. The deflector would only be used to direct snow forward/backward of the blower when the need arose.

Maybe I'm overthinking things...

Rtravis

Joined: Oct 10, 2012
Points: 1

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #11 Oct 10, 2012 4:16 pm

I have the Husqvarna 12527HV which has a chute like this:

I sort of agree though, I don't understand why 2 piece shoot is necessary and on the fancier Husqvarna models its all 1 piece.

jrtrebor

Location: Michigan - 3 hours north of Chicago on the lake
Joined: Feb 10, 2010
Points: 539

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #12 Oct 10, 2012 11:26 pm

longboat wrote:

This discussion brings up a thought for driving the evolution of snowblowers...

Maybe I'm overthinking things...

I believe that some of the old Gravely snowblowers had rotating
impeller housings.

Shryp

Location: Cleveland, OH
Joined: Jul 26, 2010
Points: 532

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #13 Oct 11, 2012 5:04 am

jrtrebor wrote:

I believe that some of the old Gravely snowblowers had rotating
impeller housings.

They did. As do some of the bigger commercial ones used for airports and stuff.

borat

Joined: Nov 10, 2007
Points: 2692

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #14 Oct 11, 2012 4:45 pm

I took a look at the chute/deflector relationship on the Simplicity. The angle of deflection doesn't appear to be all that restrictive until the deflector is getting close to being horizontal. I doubt very much that any type of alteration to the chute/deflector relationship would result in any real advantage other than possibly looking more sophisticated. On the other hand, more joints means more pressure for the control cable and more places for ice to lock up the mechanism. Simple sometimes equals better.

55utilitysedan

Location: Litchfield County, CT.
Joined: Dec 19, 2011
Points: 41

Re: 2 piece snowblower deflectors
Reply #15 Oct 11, 2012 5:11 pm

"Simple sometimes better".........you have that right borat...........

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