Got this morning from a garage sale a almost new 06 manufactured victa hawk mower for $20, nothing was wrong with it apart from the old owners had kinked the throttle cable and forced the lever to move causing the lever to move but not move the cable.
Anyhow got it running sweet, and mowed my back yard with it, I had just moved some stuff down the side of the yard and went to attack this tall grass with it when there was a loud clunk and the blade plate came out chasing me with a great deal of speed.
So after looking at thwe broken bolt and everythign else (this mower is so new the original blades are still like new) the bolt looks like it has been stretched like a peice of blu tack possibly from overtightenening in the factory or maybe a manufacturing fault with the bolt.
thankfully the disc only just missed my foot and stopped safely off to the side of the mower. Now just to get the other half of the bolt back out of the crank
