Is lack of need to engage the choke to start it just a 'new' engine thing?
Yep...that's the plan.
I have all the gear to sandblast and wirebrush a frame and repaint it, etc. Just need to find a decent frame to move the engine to.
The frame I have doesn't have the solid engine mount, so at some point it has had angle steel welded to it to fix stress fractures. The grass deflector is made from a piece of sheet metal from an old Rheem hotwater system and doesn't alow the catcher to fill fully. The knob on the clutch is a brass door knob. There is nowhere near enough metal on the cylinder for a re-grind and a number of the blades are badly bent anyway. The front roller has a lot of slop due to the holes at each end being flogged out. That said, she still cuts surprisingly well. The rear drum and drive cogs are in good nick though, as are the handle bars.
Have missed a few good frames in the last couple of months due to not being around at the end of an auction, but they come up regularly, so patience will pay off in the end I hope.
Ben.
