I had petrol left in the tank (though I could have removed it and emptied it into another mower) so decided to give it a use out front. Ran great (didn't use a catcher) and you really appreciate a good idle when passers by come along and you are able to slow it while they're passing. By the time I finished, it was very dusty all over with clippings stuck in the flap and dirt collected on the top of the mower.
An air gun hooked to a compressor helped a lot, a damp cloth did the rest. There was unsightly stuck grass fragments on the inner part of a front wheel that cleaned off easy enough from getting to it quickly.
My takeaway from this is I much prefer to use a survivor mower in sound condition than a mower I went to a lot of effort to prepare and paint up and having it look beautiful again!
Beware, once you do up your mower well, you don't want to tarnish it mowing!
Thankfully it cleaned up fine this time. It's going in storage.
Last edited by Mowerfreak; 30/09/2108:42 PM.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
