Yes.... I love the well groomed corporate mindset.

I picked up a Victa Power Torque Engine.


Formerly having no idea what the engine is, I looked up the Victa website, and tried to find out what it is, and their "technical drawings" section - it's as good as the scribblings on the back of a toilet door.

I emailed the factory with the crankcase numbers, 2 times, once off the web page and once via regular email.... no reply - nothing.

Anyway - so after this outstanding level of customer service....


I want to run this engine at LOW speed and LOW power...

I also want to run a V belt drive from it.

I want to mount the pulley on the crank shafts taper and standard connections (taper and nut).

So I think "Hmmm I want to get a pulley with the correct taper in the bore, so it will fit on, and stay on which inherently comes with having accurate parts that make a very high accuracy fit.

I figure that with some designs, that the easiest way to get the specs on the taper, is to ask the people who designed it.

I thought that phoning the factory, before going and getting gauge blocks, and accurate measuring equipment - and doing all the hard work - was the smart move - because it should have been much easier - and I don't have the equipment to measure the taper, in an absolutely accurate way.

I rang the "factory" in Siddey North South Wails, and spoke to a clever fellow in technical department.

I asked him, "What sort of taper is it?" - my question thickened with the adjunct "Is it a type of Morse taper or a "factory special"?."

He replied "I cannot tell you that, because you will go away and copy the design and make parts and sell them on us".

I thought "That's a good answer"



I asked to speak to his manager.

He refused to escalate the call.


I was impressed. In a rhetorical and inaccurate sense, to have a design that was made in 1973 - and has been out of production for years, and has sold some 30,000,000 units world wide - and given the fact that there are squillions of people in thousands and thousands of workshops all over the globe, that do, can and probably have figured out the taper in all of 3 minutes... that the guy in the technical dept - was in my opinion - an outstanding example of insightful creativity.

The Victa customer service - it's all terribly impressive.

With back up and support like this - you can be very sure I will buy a mower off them - you can count on that.


Anyway - so I would like to find out if anyone here knows what the exact type of taper is or it's specification, on the Power Torque mower's crank shaft.

These are the engine numbers.

19 J 93

A2

EN72916Z

Cheers

Shane