Yes, absolutely one of the best made.
Some so-called mower repairers are only there to leverage a sale on other equipment if they can’t instantly fix something and they often don’t have the skills.
Mowerfreak is providing sage advice above. The only thing I’d add is that I’ve found most times this generation fails to start is because the cutout assembly has deteriorated causing a permanent “off” status.
There’s a rubber/plastic boot on the carburettor that retains a pair of wires and one of those wires in turn sits inside an insulated rubber sleeve. The “off” point is when the two wires contact but they need to be kept apart for the mower to run.
There’s a couple of potential points of failure:
1. Either the boot breaks down or the sleeve breaks down allowing the wires to contact. The solution is to replace both. Fortunately these parts are small (cheap postage), inexpensive and readily available.
2. The wire itself breaks exposing conductor outside of the insulation. There’s brass terminals on each. To repair this all you need do is cut and resolder the terminals on the wire and apply heatshrink where it needs it. If your wire is foreshortened to a significant extent you’ll need to add in some more from a similar gauge. With this soldering the join and heat shrink over is best. Tape just unravels in this environment and causes more faults.
Best of luck
Ironbark
