I mentioned in another thread I had recently acquired my parter's Grandad's Rover Thoroughbred 16". It has been sitting for years, and I'm gonna have a go at resurrecting it and thought I'd start a thread in case anyone else can benefit from it.
As I say , it had been sitting for at least 5 years in a shed up on the border of Victoria, maybe more. It had a lot of crud in all the mechanical parts, so I thought I'd clean up all the drive assembly first before I stated on the engine. These have a centrifugal clutch, so the last thing I wanted was to start it up and have the reel scraping all over the place. I might add, I've never had a cylinder mower but have wanted one for ages,I use a Masport Cleveland push mower mostly, because I hate the cut a rotary give, so I'll be learning as I go.
