OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Reel-Type Mowers Scott Bonnar 45 Questions

Hey BB,

I asked around a little more and have in turn dropped the mower off to have a new bottom blade installed, (will be a raised lip blade) and reel sharpened in accordance. After asking quite a few people over here i found a mower shop that comes with quite a lot of support from the local FB group (WA Lawn Addicts) who seem to provide more info than local bowls clubs are willing to give.

I found a new bottom blade and sharpen for $165 to be very reasonable. Once the mower comes back the last mechanical fix required will be to recork the clutch. I have a feeling that it is burnt out as it really does not want to engage the reel at at all without a lot of jiggling of the lever. The reel side clutch half seems to travel to far in my opinion, once i get the mower back and pull apart the clutch i will be able to confirm this however.

Fingers crossed this is the last mechanical fix as many more is going to start cost me a little too much. (In the better halves eyes anyway.)


Paul

Sadly these mowers have pretty much out priced themselves now with most of the sellers on eBay just ripping buyers off unmercifully, one in particular comes to mind. All these clowns are doing is buying components from GA Spares and re-flogging them online and making a killing due to the current craze on Model 45's.

I'm not expecting a free ride but the profits are simply right off the planet and thus this will end up sending many mowers to the scrap yard.

The sad truth BB. A lot of the eBay sellers peddling components from the GA Spares catalogue are aiming way too high. Even some of the more 'reasonably' priced on eBay at the moment are beaten by my local go to, without me even mentioning what I could pay for them online...

So reel bearings I would be better going local? Or somewhere online you guys recommend?

The reel bearings of all things are one piece of the puzzle that you can source pretty commonly (RLS52RS / generic) and they�re not dear. The GA Spares catalogue likely has them, although you can find them at bearing shops, online, etc. Seeing as you are having the reel sharpening done locally, that would be a good point of call - ask them for a pair. The GA spares componentry I am more or less referring to are those specific to the SB model 45; e.g. clutch halves, reel bearing housings, transmission parts, etc.

Hi GTX, (any relation to Castrol ?)

You shouldn't have to pay any more than $8 to $9 tops for an RLS5 bearing. Then there's those clowns on ePrey that are selling them for around $30 for a pair. These scumbags need to take a good long hard look at themselves. How they sleep at night is beyond me.

If only we could all get a GA Spares account then we could wipe the likes of the above out.

Cheers,
BB.

Oils aint oils BB. Hang on that was Valvoline wasn't it?

You could almost use most of the eBay listings as a benchmark of what NOT to pay...

eBay is not the same as it once was. These clowns' listings are basically akin to online paid advertising/marketing, where for me it's become automatic/habit to completely ignore the ads with certain watermarked images used on their listings.
Given using it as a selling platform is no longer practical for Joe Blow, its rare to see any (I'll call them 'regular') seller auction listings. Not when the other platforms out there don't take a 'cut' of your sale.

Good luck to the clowns though - they aren't getting any of our hard earned...

Hi GTX,


I do actually deal with only one of them, but I buy "direct" from him and not via the eBay platform and as such I get the items much much cheaper than the average Joe would.

I've recently challenged one of those Clowns that's based in Perth and he tells me that even though his prices are off the planet that he's achieving well over $2,000 in monthly SB alone sales, yet alone all the other junk he sells.

My argument would be if he was far more affordable then I'd say his sales figures would be much higher than his measly 2K and truthfully who are all these gullible people that can obviously see all the listings but still pick the most expensive parts ? do they actually think they are getting better parts than from the lower priced sellers ? wake up people........... they're all coming from the same place just being retailed through different levels of greedy folk.

Oh and BTW Oil's aint Oils was in fact Castrol's catch cry for quite a number of years, while "Valvoline.......You know what I mean" was John Laws finisher in the long running Valvoline ads he did. He was the best of the good ol' Mr Cash for Comments people.


Cheers,
BB.