Spare parts for blades and abrasive discs for the Venus Terrarossa machine

Venus spare parts and maintenance

Venus is a machine that if used correctly and properly, with the necessary precautions, guarantees a long life of the hardox blades which constitute the pulsating core of that equipment for resurfacing tennis clay courts. The 104 trapezoidal tooth blades specially designed to grind properly the top layer of the red clay sport surfaces have to be cleaned after a working session: it is necessary to take off the rotor the humid clay. If it will be drying on the blades it become like a cement and will block the rotor, that become unusefull for the next use.

Paoloni supplies the machine with a special steel brush with handle to facilitate this operation of cleaning and standard blades maintenance: just tip the machine back and place it on the ground on the handles to easily access the rotor and by sliding it on its shaft: just scrape clay away.

If you do this at the end of each day of work with Venus you will avoid being with the blades locked in a single block as in the following photos:

New Venus blade's rotor

Old damaged Venus rotor: bad use and none cleaning or maintenance

Hardox blades

When the rotor blades are free to turn on themselves and tilt on their own axis and are not tightened by their spacers, and these too are free to rotate eccentrically on their own axis, the Venus will always work at its best and blades will have a round and proper consumption.

CONTRAINDICATIONS: if the simple and rapid periodic cleaning operations are not carried out, the risk is that, during the next use, the blocked blades always hit the same point and then get rid of the hardened earth incorrectly only due to the strong impact of the rotor driven by the powerful Honda engine. In the meantime the blades will have flattened out on one side only, losing their circularity, and with it the balance that makes them turn continuously to have the best milling result and maximum durability. If you continue to work this way, not only the machine will lose its grinding ability, but the blades will damage untill breacking.

Example of a well worn blade and badly worn blade:

Rotor with blades properly worn thanks to correct maintenance

ROTOR WITH BLADES PROPERLY WORN THANKS TO CORRECT MAINTENANCE

Rotor with new blades immediately badly worn on one side

ROTOR WITH NEW BLADES IMMEDIATELY BADLY WORN ON ONE SIDE

Blades broken due to excess wear and mismanagement of the rotor and the machine

BLADES BROKEN DUE TO EXCESS WEAR AND MISMANAGEMENT OF THE ROTOR AND THE MACHINE

Compromised rotor for total absence of cleaning and long stop of the machine (if venus is used rarely and after the last use it hasn't been cleaned, the rotor looks like an encrusted block of cemented blades and spacers)

COMPROMISED ROTOR FOR TOTAL ABSENCE OF CLEANING AND LONG STOP OF THE MACHINE (if Venus is used rarely and after the last use it hasn't been cleaned, the rotor looks like an encrusted block of cemented blades and spacers)

How to change blades on venus rotor

Dismounting and changing blades with spare parts

Engine maintenance

The powerful Honda engine supplied on Venus machines is the "GX 200" model of proven robustness and reliability. Honda gives a standard guarantee and total coverage in every country in the world, anyway Paoloni company in 25 years of Venus production and over 3,000 units sold, has never had to resort to an engine default assistance.

In any case, there are few but essential precautions to be adopted also to ensure that the engine maintains its performance unaltered.
The air filter must always be kept free (how to do? See the slides here below): unscrew the butterfly bolt on the filter cover box. Once the filter has been extracted, remove the sponge "sock" that covers the filter box and wash it with warm soapy water, dry it well and reassemble everything by doing the reverse procedure.

Before each working day with Venus, especially if the machine has not been stored in a dry and covered place, make sure that the engine spark is not wet or damp: unscrewing it and drying it is good practice.

The engine oil tank: Honda has created its engines with an "alarm oil" to avoid damaging the cylinder if the oil is low. In this case the engine does not start even following the correct procedure (see how to turn on the Honda engine of Venus in the video published on the page dedicated to the Venus Standard machine)

Special cases: if the engine does not start or switch off by himself or emits white or black smoke from the exhaust: water could have entered the tank, or you forgot to turn off the air with the gray button or you are not pressing the red safety device on the left handle of the machine. In any case, for doubts and needs, we invite our customers to contact us for any advice and need about Venus use and setting.

Honda engine filter cleaning operations

How to clean engine air filter