Yes Max,
The painted 2 strokes were a lot of work, besides the mower itself it takes me 2 hours to modify a carby and get it working, and that is if I can get a float needle and primer cap to work first go, often I can spend another 2 hours fighting primer caps and needles before I get a combination that works. Then I have to wait a couple of days to see if it still works and usually a 50/50 chance, will it work or not and if not I can then spend another couple of hours going through the process again and then wait a couple of days and repeat the process. I tried hard with them but they are just not worth the grief they cause and I was only getting $80 for them anyway. No mower shop could even contemplate fixing a domestic mower when you can just go and buy a new piece of Chinese junk. I did check in Bunning the other day as I was walking through the mower section and their cheapest petrol mowers were $499, which is a lot of money for a mower that won't last too long, I fixed a PT for a bloke last week that he bought new in Sydney in 1987. Couple of front bushes, sharpen the blades, fit another decomp valve and it is good for another 20 years
