I found this on the side if the road with a seized chinese PT. It came with a catcher and the body was pretty clean without rust penetration so grabbed it for the body early this year. I have just got around to take a look at it as I was recently given an engine and said it was a good one. The mower came with missing rear wheels and one very worn front wheel. I fitted three matching spares. The front axle had more play than I liked so made up a pair of shims to fit around the location points in the chassis (see pic). This, together with better used bushes I had on hand reduced the play to almost nil. Next fault was a missing rear flap hinge which I replaced with a spare. Drilling out one broken rivet proved a bit of a pig but I got there, although with a very eccentric hole! The new 4.8mm rivet gripped without issue. Next will be a pressure wash and then fitting and trying out the replacement engine. This is no restoration, just a clean up and assembly for a sound working mower. Let's hope the motor is a good goer. It has a nice fat snorkel and the "premium" square air cleaner control housing.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
