Hi everyone just finished restoring my model 45 reel mower and have decided to start on restoring the matching edger. There seems to be little Info on restoring these edgers so any help would be greatly appreciated. My main question is where to start tearing it down from, it doesn't seem as straight forward as other edgers with just removing the 4 engine mount bolts and undoing a belt. Just wondering if I can undo the engine mount bolts and the pulley mecanism comes out with the engine? Or is there a better way to tackle this.
Also interested in a bit of history with this series edger, I did get off track with CyberJack on this edger in another post but was wondering what the original colour scheme was for this series. The top part of the handlebars are green but have white paint underneath, my research seems to show this earlier series with the Kirby engine having white handle bars and the later series having a Briggs engine had green handle bar. Would mine be a cross over model or has someone painted it green, for those who haven't seen my other threads on my restorations I like to restore everything to the correct period detail right down to a bolt.
Looking to get this finished before the start of this year's new lawn season so stay tuned and I will post updates as I go along.
B.B all that talking about paint has got me on a high.
