I have to confess it was no brilliance on my part I have 5 of these mowers and am using one as a donor machine and was dismantling it when I discovered the brass bushes in the rollers, like the other the rollers had been turning on the bushes but they were not seized to the axle.
I will only use parts off this mower that I cannot make or buy as it seems a shame to discard another old mower when they are getting older and harder to get and it will only get worse for our grandkids.
I have already made a nut for a carby off a mark 12 Villiers, just a brass cylinder without the hex so will probably do another for this carby, will give the purists something to comment on if we are ever able to get to display our toys.
Cleaned up the side plates ready to paint, surprised at the difference in the steel, have also stripped the handles and have done a repair on the clutch housing by welding up the damage done by the clutch plate rattling around.
Finding it hard to get the correct colour in paint at the moment, I think I read somewhere deep brunswick green, but have not been able to source any in the Sunraysia.
