OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Victa Walk-Behind Rotary Mowers VC-160 Mark I,II & IIIB Restoration

OK my VC-160 Mark I,II & IIIB restorations are well under way.Painted the mark I & II bases and various other parts last Sunday.Here are some pictures from start to now.
Mark I mower as it was found


Mark II mower as it was found.


The Mark IIIB as it was found.


The Mark I & II bases stripped back and ready for perpetuation.

The Mark I & II bases with first coat of primer.



OK from here they were ready to paint.

OK so here are the pictures taken today to show you were they are up to now.

This one is the Mark I with engine just sitting on it.

The colour isn't quite as I thought it would be,but I guess it is close enough to it.





Once again cooling cowl only sitting on it.Just to see how it would look.

Hi Jeffery, brilliant work so far mate....these'll look better than new when you're finished, mate!!

Yeah I didn't go for the hammertone look. (Seems like I can't get hammertone in Canberra) I was going more for the show pony look.I did have a little bit of problems with the spray gun.So there are a few whoopees but I'm hoping I can get those out with a wet cut an buff.Fingers crossed on that part.

Gooday All
@Blumby. Your painting looks OK to me. Nice colour - what paint and what colour??

The reason why anyone cant get Plastic-Kote "Hammer" paint is that it has been bought out by Wattyl.
Here in SA we wont be able to get it until into the new year.
Which means I will have to put my NEW UTILITY painting on the back burner. I have been trying hither and yon to find this paint to no avail..
Oh well, have plenty more to go on with.
Stationary

The paint was just air dry enamel and the colour is mint green.I'm not sure that it was the right colour.After looking at bases and videos and colour brochures of them I thought it would have been the closest colour to what they would have been,but once the colour went on I'm not so sure it was right.Anyhow it's done now and they do look good.

Does look a bit bright.

But it looks good none the less.



Bob.

Hopefully where the paint blew up I will be able to wet cut and buff it out.

Well after trying to fix where the gun had blow stuff into the paint.I couldn't repair it by,wet cutting and buffing.So I have had to rub them back again ready for paint.So I've started a poll to see whether you all think I should change to a different colour.As maybe it should be a bit darker.As it really didn't turn out the way I thought it would.

Should I change the color? single choice
	Yes
	No
Votes accepted starting: 06/11/11 11:04 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

As well as a bit darker they have always come at me as a tiny bit metallic, not full on like a metallic car paint just enough for the appearance of it.

Yeah I starting to think I should make them darker.It looked right on the colour chart,but not when it went on the bases or catcher plates.

I thought the back doors were black. But then i doubt ive ever seen one in good enough condition to be able to tell what colour its meant to be.



As a sign of individuality you could leave the back doors in that colour.

Catcher flaps were colour coded,about the only thing I painted wrong was the cutting disc.I painted it black it should have been like a winter wheat colour.

OK it looks like everybody agrees that a colour change must happen.

I think the crowd has spoken.I need to find a closer colour to what it was.Thanks all for the voting.

Hi all long time no post.OK after my poll I realized that everybody agreed with me that the colour I did the VC's in wasn't going to work out right.Now the last shop I went to couldn't get it right for me.So a big thanks goes out to Capital Auto Paints in Fyswick.They not only got the colour right and in hammer-tone,but they also did it a hell of a lot cheaper. In fact I got 4 litres of it for a faction over the price for one litre at the other shop.So here are some pictures let me know what you think.








This is the closed to the original colour that I could get.It was specially mixed and colour matched to the best sample that I had.I think this time I do have the right colour.I think that they look fantastic.

It looks rather like my 1976 4 stroke, but not quite as green and perhaps a touch lighter. Much more like it than your first try.

Yes they are much better now.It just pays to shop around.I'm glad I found this shop.It is hard to find as the shop is below street level,so if you don't go down there you'd never see it.All good now.

Now that's more like it!

Brilliant, I'm getting pretty bloody excited about seing these ones once you are done.

I feel like I'm now starting to win.Don't worry Ty I'm excited on what they are going to like when they are done.

Well, I've seen these up close now, in the flesh, and wow, it really is close to the original, these are going to be great!

Well fingers crossed on that.I think the only problem that I'm going to have now is going to be the handle bars.There is some rust on them.I may have to get them re-chromed.

OK I would just like to make a correction for the post I put up after I repainted the bases and catcher flaps.The name of the paint shop is in fact the wrong one,that is the shop who couldn't help me.The shop that did have the right stuff is called Auto Paint Supplies.On Gladstone St Fyswick.So if others in this area are after paint that's the better place to go.

Hi Jeffery and on a fine paint job. That colour looks great!
Can't wait to see the finished product now mate.

Yes it much better just having some major problems on how to get the heads cleaned.I just can't get them clean enough to be able to shine them up.After I work that out things will come together fairly smart,minus handles as I may have to re-chrome them as there not to good for memory.Will have to get them out of the shed soon.

I can't wait to see them either Jeffrey, so I can get a good reference to be able to restore mine.

Cheers.

Don't neither can I,it's just cleaning these heads that has me stumpped.

I tried drowning some heads in export degreaser without washing it off after 6 or so coats of degreaser I blasted them with my karcher and got them pretty damn perfect

The degreaser I'm using just doesn't seem to be moving it.I did try a bit of soda blasting (which showed some good signs of working)but even wearing two pair of safety goggles I got sick of getting it in my eyes.[Censored] that stuff can hurt.