Hi All,
I've edited this post as I've had a close look at the original photos that I took and now have worked out (it was quite a while ago) that that thing that looks like duct tape was in fact a part made of white nylon type molded tubing which has the cable passing underneath it. I recall it was crazed / sun affected (consistant with the machines age) and was about to break so I cut it off and initially replaced it with tape but I worked out that the tape wasn't required so I took the tape off again. As such the cable sits in a good way totally unrestrained to this current day.
The only other thing ever changed on mine was the original fuel tank due to the original tap failing and a Kirby HK25 tank was fitted by the original owner and I've since changed the tank back to a Villiers unit, but as it came from a C12 motor it was orange (as it still is) while all the Villiers engines supplied were painted over the Villiers base protection colour coat with Scott Bonnar Green of the day to match the rest of the mower.
This mower has got good provenance and is basically a one owner unit and I've made no mods to it apart from retrofitting the original style tank back on to it.
The metal eyelet fitted on that much earlier one pictured in that old hand painted advertisement would've been deleted for the more modern and cheaper plastic fitting used on the later Supercuts, which both mine are.
Hope that this clears up this matter.
Cheers,
BB
