Hi
SBM,I must agree with Mal (bluegmhtmanaro) on this issue.
You just have to mow with a carefully maintained and aligned Scotty 45, to see the finish on a fine lawn. To achieve this finish, the machine has to be well aligned and balanced.
To give you some history of this design:
The SB Model 45 was first introduced in 1968 and was designed by the company's design engineers, in the SB factory at Thebarton, South Australia.
It has been the most successful domestic cylinder mower designed and built in Australia by Scott Bonnar Ltd. and carried on successively by Rover-Scott Bonnar, Rover Ltd., and lately by Protea Mowers and Star Mowers.
Protea is the market-leader for professional-quality turf care machinery in South Africa....Click
HERE If you are thinking of weighing the machine on each side, you have to remember the the
right-hand rear roller (looking from behind the machine) contains balance weights, which helps balance the machine whilst turning and also the differential action of the rear rollers.
I also have an ATCO Model 2058 (ie a 20" manufactured in 1958) which has a Mark 12KS Villiers positioned in the same area as the engine on a Scotty. This was the usual practice of those times. The petrol version of the SB Model 17 Supercut, designed by the excellent SB engineer Sid Bowditch, in 1950, also had the engine positioned the same as its protege, the Model 45.
Hoping this is of interest,
