OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Tip & Curb Side Finds Downsizing

Well.

Went to the tip with her to get pots for her plants and this mysteriously ended up in the back of the car. engine no 5 571040 43.
Waltons eh??????
Sean

WOW, I remember that store. DAMN I'M OLD!

Wasn't that long ago

me too , scary huh , waltons was just a store brand though , someones changed the coweling or engine , blumby'l tell you by the numbers , i got 3 of them here all different cowels but none say victa , only on the base . made for WHOEVER by victa
you gotta lose the key to the back of your car mate , it will never end

so how do i check for spark on this sucker? give it a few turns and hit the button?

funny, gave it a few cranks got the boy to hold the plug to check for spark. he jumped about 3 foot high when i hit the button. gold. he did come down laughing vid would have been good

It's an interesting reflection on society I think - in the 60's and 70's if you cracked the base of the mower you welded it up like in the photo there. Nowadays if you crack the base you leave it on the nature strip and buy a new one. A throw away society - really sad I think.

Pete

Your right there! Unfortunately it's just pure economics. Everything is so much cheaper in real terms ( as a percentage of the weekly income). I once read that 70 percent of the stuff we buy has either been consumed or used and disposed of within 3 months! And people wonder why I am such a keen believer in developing financial systems based on sustainability

Sorry, I've slid off topic here.

Yes I can help with that engine number.It appears that engine is a Corvette 2 model number 71VB from 1971.The base however is a store brand as can be seen by the Waltons sticker.So I'd say that someone at some point has had problems with the original base and swapped the engine over.Similar base but not quite the same.
Also can you share your secret on how it ended up in your boot as I just can't find anything.It would be great if they just put themselves in there.
Hang on I'll go and check and see if one is in there now.

I think she put it in there on the sly. just found 3 in the back of mine, makes 42.
not happy with the prognosis on the mower though. was hoping it was from 1970 and see if it was made in the same month i was born. the starter seems to have no pawls?? it throws nothing out when actuated(wow).
I have read enough here to know not to pull it appart,just wait for a working one to come my way. dont want to soil myself or the boy.
WHY IS IT SO will make this quick.
mowed three lawns together today that i usually use a 4 stroke for the back half and a powertorque for the front what is on a steep grade. mowed the lot with a victa 550 21 inch fullcrank and it used nearly 3 times the fuel.

Just found in car.


They all work apparently.
Can i yolk up a powertorque to the flymo to power my house??
Last but not least.
Yes I still have the Amplion HT6.
And yes I did all that with one breath.
My head still hurts.
Kids laughed.
Sean

Sorry but it is there for all the world to see 5571 the 71 means 1971 sorry to upset you there.I might if your interested have the right base for that one.As I have two of them and I really only need the one.
I checked my wife's boot my boot and even my sons boot,bloody nothing.I just don't have the touch.

So..

This topic is about downsizing then ...

I have to agree with Blumby that the matching of a Waltons mower with the
Corvette name is a bitsa - the engine has been changed and I totally endorse
Master Technician Blumby's assessment.

Walton's name for this Corvette base was Celestial:-



Hope this helps.
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JACK

Would you be willing to part with said Amplion before you turn blue and pass out?

NO

Would you? A bit more painting experience and i have a mate with a hurricane motor that suits. wont give it too me, yet.

Fair enough:)

Ill have to shelve my new aquisitions until another base comes along...

new aquisitions?? interest piqued. pics man. anything born in march 1970 will be interested

Naaaa nothing 1970...

New aquisition was the wheels, I have all the other parts to make a second Amplion, Now just need a base.

mate to be honest with you i have had so many people randomly coming to my house and asking about it. i have 42 mowers now, i had to put it away. had a bloke yesterday randomly ring me up for my address to look at my mowers.
sean

Hi Sean

Birthday: March 1970.
The most significant mower to commemorate that year can only be:-



I rate the VC160 one of the most important Australian lawnmowers.
It didn't really do anything new; it just did it very well. Most importantly,
the most brilliant advertising campaign followed that many old-oily-rag
collectors remember - and will never forget.

This was Victa at their peak.
They produced this mower in your honour

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JACK

jack you de man any info on the vc160 born in march??

Sean

I'm only de man: Blumby is 'DA MAN' for everything VC!

The 1970 VC will be 160cc and it will be before the de-compressor engines.
They will have a wind-up (trip release) starter.

So, don't go for the later VCs. The decompressor is a device similar in operation
to a paint can being punctured by, say, a screwdriver. Avoid these.

It will need to have the big '70' on the crankcase numbers.

That sounds about right jack, I think my parents had too much of a good time in the 60s. So I am a sunbeam child
Going to work on the flymo generator now. I recon it will work.
Sean.