Speaking of snorkels and air filters, remember the good old original blue Australian made Victa air filters from some years ago?
I used to use them all the time and purchase them from the local Bunnings store. Anyway the good old Australian made Victa short air filter that had the blue ends used to fit on my mower perfectly. Then a few years ago now you guys may have also noticed this Victa (well Briggs and Stratton or whoever owns them now) decided to ditch the perfect exact fitting Australian made Victa air filter for some red ended dodgy imported air filter and sell it in the original "Victa Lawnkeeper" packet at Bunnings.
So I bought this new air filter as it was packaged in the exact same packet as the original blue ended Australian made ones were. Got it home went to chuck it on the mower and it's not the same! It was loose fitting and it would just let the dirt get in from the bottom where it sits on the snorkel!
I wasn't happy at all as this was shoved in the original Victa Lawnkeeper packet like the Aussie ones were!
I returned the air filter to Bunnings and told them they are rubbish! These don't fit the same as the original blue Australian made filters, I said tell the people you get them from to fix them up!
Well guess what, soon after that Bunnings removed the Victa short air filter from sale.
I even went to the trouble of writing a polite email to the head office of Victa (or B&S buggers who own them now) to tell them about the issue and if they could fix them up or something, well I got no reply back at all. Yes the current owners of Victa really care about the dinosaurs still running the good old Aussie 2 strokes out there!
Back to the story of air filters, I did end up buying what Masters Hardware was selling back around then, they sold a "Bynorm" brand of air filters for Victa's. I noticed that these filters also included a little foam ring that you place at the bottom of the air filter where it sits on the snorkel. I then used these for a while until Masters Hardware closed.
Now I just purchase the red air filters in a pack of 10 on ebay, and I also grab a pack of 10 foam rings on ebay also.
See now if the new owners of Victa (Briggs and Stratton) had of listened to their customers. They would probably still be making money on some of their service products for older Victa's.
Cheers!
Last edited by Converse; 21/02/19 12:16 AM.
