Hi All, more on the saga of the self adjusting adjuster. Ii would appear that the piece of metal that is riveted to the bottom of the arm no longer has the strength that it originally had and that combined with the wear in the ratchet and the teeth that engage it are worn to the point that very little movement is required for it to jump out of mesh and it with the wear on the edges of the teeth just skips past until it hits the lowest setting and I have another bald patch and a stalled motor. The way it is made I dont think it is worth trying to strengthen the riveted spring so I will continue to attempt to fit one of the real notchy plastic quadrants along with its round shaped arm.
Next question blades and bolts. On the second drop today it found 1/2 a brick and when I looked underneath one blade had lost about half of the turned up bit. So down to the hardware store and found that the blades that were on it were the wrong ones, they were for a grass catcher model, so I got some for a non grass catcher Victa CA09262S and they said to match with BOLT SET B, I can find no listing for bolt set B. The bolts for my mower have big square heads that lock against the inside of the disk and I have 4 of these disks, all good, and the blades and disks have round holes in them for the bolts then there is a thin washer with 3 little turned up bits followed by a heavy washer with a hex hole in the centre and then the nyloc nut.
All of my mowers use the same disks (like a wok), the catcher one has catcher blades and works well. The only bolts the hardware store can provide look like they fit in a somewhat diamond shaped hole in the disk an I was told thats all there is!, the others dont exist any more!!! And I cant be sure what the correct number is I think it could be CA09305 S, is this likely to be the correct one? I got this number from a list on this site. The problems of living in the bush!!!!!
Thanks ,
Don.....
