Belly Mower blade position

[RDavis29]

New to the forum, and new owner of a 1979 B7100HST-D.

It has a nice 5 foot belly mower. I think while tinkering I grabbed one of the blades and rotated it out of time with the other 2 blades.

How would the 3 blades be positioned compared to each other? My instinct tells me have the 2 outside blades at a 90 degree angle to the center blade?

Thanks;
Rob

 

[cmorningstar01]

The blade tips should not touch when turning and the cut overlaps due to the positioning of the blades across the mower deck, The blades are belt driven and therefore are subject to a certain amount of slippage so it will not really matter how you align the blades, They will move on their own.