This HG Palmer mower has come my way as a trade for parts with another collector, the Briggs and Stratton engine oozes workmanship and pride from days gone by
Engine Model is 81706 and good old USA I was able to download the engine manual from the Briggs and Stratton web site
And as luck would have it I had the missing badge siting in my spares, it was for sale on fellow member Kye's Facebook page for $20 so I grabbed it :-)
This mower is in fantastic condition and will only be getting a service and a clean.
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That is welcome news, I think I can download my images from Photobucket and save them but what a mess.
It smacks of the cyber gangs that lock your computer until you pay their fee in Bit coins, I doubt too many of their customers are going to cough for $400 which is probably US dollars as well.
These kinds of "cyber-scams" are becoming very common. Recently I spent two hours vectoring a jpeg file using an online tool that was advertized as being "free". I finally got to the end and pressed "copy file". All I got was a small popup screen asking for my credit card details and telling me they wanted $14.95 per month. For something I will only use once or twice in 20 years, it was not worth it, so I had to lose all of my hard work. Obviously by "free" they meant "free to try and use" but not free to download your work.
I spent a good part of Saturday servicing and cleaning, this mower really is in nice original condition. Gave it an oil change using straight 30 weight Penrite oil and also fitted the front badge that I bought previously:-)
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A while since I posted as Covid and floods have taken there toll over the past year or so. My collection has shrunk and a lot of my harder to find mowers have been rehomed.
I still have some nice machines in my collection and added this HG Palmer 4 Stroke Utility to the herd. Love the Villiers engine and it runs sweetly.