Did a job of work for a nearby rural property owner and got to chatting about how he got on during a 30 hour power outage we had a couple of weeks ago, outages are a frequent occurence around here but not often for such a long time. I was telling him we got by with just a small 240V AC inverter running off 12V DC batteries to charge our phones and rechargeable AA and AAA batteries, run a few 240 V appliances and keep a few lights on, can't use it to run the fridge or freezer, it is too small. He told me they just tough it out and mentioned he used to have a generator but it stopped working because of carbie probs.........
Today I picked up his generator and he also had an old mower sitting there waiting to be sent to the tip, also with carbie problems and allegedly in need of a new piston and rings. He had since bought a ride-on and another Honda mower.
So, after some minimal fiddling, cleaned air filter and a new sparkplug the mower runs superbly. Did half an hour mowing, drained jet black oil and replaced with fresh oil.
The generator is an Xceed EX200G. The fuel tank was full of rusty crud as was the fuel tap and the needle valve needed brute force to remove but I got it running nicely by filling the float bowl with fresh fuel. May need a new carbie.
I hadn't seen a Victa with a Tecumseh 4 stroke motor before. I have had some Tecumseh 2 strokes.
Always worth a chat when visiting rural properties.
