Premium grade · water soluble · suspended abrasive
The sharpening compound greenkeepers use. Now for your cylinder mower.
Backlapping paste restores the scissor cut a cylinder (reel) mower is bought for — no grinder, no workshop. Brush it on, run the reel backwards a few minutes, hose it off.
- ✓ Water-soluble: washes straight off, no solvents
- ✓ Abrasive stays suspended: no settling, no stirring
- ✓ Allett, Swardman, Masport, Scott Bonnar, Rover, Victa, Toro, Jacobsen
- ✓ Free shipping Australia-wide on 4 L tubs
Choose your tub
Same compound in both sizes. Pick the grit for the job (guide below).
4 litre tub
Free shipping Australia-wide
Enough for years of home use, or a season of club mowers. Approx. 6.5 kg.
Grit
Coarse: a dull or nicked cylinder, or one that hasn't been lapped in a season — fast cutting; follow with 120 or 150 for a finer finish.
$99.95
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1 litre tub
The hobby size
A few hundred millilitres does a home mower for a year. Posted as a small parcel.
Grit
Coarse: a dull or nicked cylinder, or one that hasn't been lapped in a season — fast cutting; follow with 120 or 150 for a finer finish.
$49.95
incl. GST · plus postage at checkout
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Which grit?
80 grit · Coarse
The reel is dull, has small nicks, or hasn't been lapped in a season. Cuts fast. Follow with 120 or 150 if you want a finer finish.
120 grit · Medium
The everyday choice. Routine backlapping of a mower in reasonable shape — the grit greens machines and bowling-green mowers are usually lapped with.
150 grit · Fine
Finishing. The mower is already sharp and you want the keenest edge — what bowling-green mowers are finished with. Not for a dull reel.
Not sure? Most home mowers want 120.
How to backlap
- Set the reel-to-bedknife contact so the reel just touches the bedknife along its full length.
- Brush paste evenly across the full width of the reel blades.
- Run the reel backwards — a backlapping attachment, a drill on the reel shaft, or the mower's own backlap mode — for 3–10 minutes, adding paste as it dries out.
- Hose the paste off completely (it's water-soluble), re-set the bedknife, and test with a strip of paper: a sharp cylinder cuts cleanly along its whole width.
Not dangerous goods. Keep the lid on between uses; a tub keeps for years.