Hi Guys,
Well every now and again one has to get lucky.
I managed to pick up at auction a Scott Bonnar Lawn King 17 inch mower and 2 fertiliser spreaders for a whole $20. The mower was listed as salvage because the pull start cowling was removed but included in the sale.
I spent about 10 minutes on it and had the engine up and going, the reel is another issue as it has a ceased bearing, but that's not much of an issue either as I've stripped the machine down and cleaned all the chains, sprockets and drive gear. The clutch assembly is fine as are most of the other major components.
I do require a few little bits to do a full restoration on the mower but most of those are just the regular consumables like catcher rest rubber blocks etc. and reproduce the "Lawn King" stickers at the end of the resto job as they are not available thru any of the sticker reproducers as yet.
The one odd part I require and I guess it would have to come from a wrecked chassis that's never going to be rebuilt is the small steel square blocks that are welded (one each side) to both side plates of the chassis on which the catcher rubbers mount onto.
If anyone has a wrecked chassis its merely just a quick hit with a 4 inch angle grinder to grind off the weld on the outside which will release the mounting block out of its location hole in the side plate.
Now my next query is what was the Lawn King all about as it used the (orange coloured) smaller powered 2 HP B&S motor on a 17 inch machine, chassis was painted Hammertone Blue and also had the more standard slasher type mower wrap around handle bar opposed to the criss cross style bars we are used to seeing on a SB 45. The stickers on the catcher and chain cover identifies it as a "Lawn King by Scott Bonnar".
My thoughts are it was a budget version of the SB45 designed to do smaller lawns due to the base unit 2 HP engine being fitted opposed to the standard 3 HP unit with the larger petrol tank ???????
If any of you guys have any ideas on the origins of this model I'd love to hear your opinion. I have seen the thread on this forum of a restoration of the exact same machine as I have, so it tells me nothing has been substituted as mine looks totally original.
Also if anyone has that small part (rubber block mount) on a wrecked chassis I'd only been too happy to buy it and thus keep another Bonnar all original and on the lawn (not the road) so to speak.
Cheers,
Marty. (bonnar_bloke)
