At this point I must insist that NONE of these following and few before projects are my own work.
My neighbor Mark was fascinated by my playing and just wanted to hang out and see what I was doing, another neighbor Glenn helped by borrowing a mower and suggesting a slasher or bigger unit might be usable.
I have over 60 R/C cars and was going toward 5th scale with 23-35cc engines and fixing mowers and one or two restorations, my brother already had a thing for '60's Victas and early '70's rovers so he gave me a collection of later model spares.
The rest became inevitable.
Of course I dismissed both and carried on in my own way until I was given a few interesting bits of junk and re aligned the service areas.
It was so much easier than doing cars!
I now have over 120 working internal combustion engines in all sorts of implements.
I still covet a 1960's David Brown tractor above all.
To Mark, my stalwart parts washer and continual poke in the back to get on with it, Glenn who suggested and then cautions about being "too perfect, just "get it done" and my brother who collected for years before I realised the there were even different model mowers.
To the forums here and also elsewhere, the variety of opinions and the sparks of an idea, that's why I'm here now and finally some of the great parts providers, if they didn't supply the part now they did, or will and their catalogues give incredible insight.
My gratitude beyond words.
To restore or refrbish is the best thing you can do for recycling because it is not only landfill, but the costs of making another in the materials and power are negated.
There is also the beyond cool feeling of mowing the verge with a 50 year old vintage mower, priceless.
Last edited by Brycevr; 11/05/16 10:50 AM.
