Yes it's not worth it for me to sell mowers Norm as most times I would make one mower from 3 and these days it would cost me more in fuel to pickup 3 mowers than what I'd sell one for.
I picked up a MTD that ran well ,not smoking but just threw it in the scrap pile.
It's always a problem when you sell cheap mowers and the buyers expect you to repair equipment or one of their mowers for virtually nothing but I would just say to them I can sell you a repaired mower for the same price I will charge to fix your mower and then they didn't want their old mower repaired and just bought a repaired mower.
I've seen second hand working petrol pressure washers for $50. and new are around $400. ,so not worth spending much time repairing them.
I have at least 5 here that I've never looked at because I have working electric pressure washers ,the petrol washers are always on the side of the road here ,some look fairly new and probably just need a carby clean.
One washer I picked up many years ago has a Vanguard 16HP V-Twin Petrol Engine , from memory I think it just needs rings.
I was sick of people that I would do small repairs for free but they would say they would roll up at a certain time then change the time 2 more times and would do the same when picking up the mower ,so I just had to say I don't do repairs.
You can get a lot of time wasters ,I once sold a good working 2 Hp air compressor for $20. and the guy spent nearly 1 hour testing the compressor before buying it.
