Hi AVB,
yes I would hate to be trying to repair and sell mowers and try and make any money, I do this to keep the brain working and giving me something to do and get satisfaction from getting things working. I am slowly working my way through the pile here and I am not looking at picking any more mowers up. I have probably 50/60 2 strokes I can build over the next few years and the only other things I will bother with are the big 24 inch Victa slashers and a few Ariens self propelled I can pick up.
MF,
Yes the small mowers are fine for women as long as they live in a unit with a small yard, they are great for maintaining a lawn and if used as designed for will last years. One big problem I find with a lot of these cheap mowers is people want to use cheap E10 fuel in them (its only a cheap mower so why should I put the more expensive fuel in it) and we all know how that ends up