Hello again,

This is the equipment that I have ended up with and I'm pretty happy with it all even though I spent more than I intended to. Total cost was $1100 for the lot.

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The mower is a fully restored Rover 45 by a retired lawnmower mechanic who does it as a hobby now and only makes very little profit.
That's a brand new B&S motor on the mower. He has four other new B&S motors on his work bench to go into other restoration projects. They've been sitting there for a while though because they're a bit dusty but you can tell they're brand new. I even saw a couple of new honda engines as well.

He took the side cover off and showed me that this mower has all new chains, all new sprockets, new handle grips, new bottom blade, new height adjustment mechanism for the reel, new throttle cable etc, as well as a new paint job and stickers.
The cutting reel is not new but has 12mm-13mm of blade left and he had it sharpened during the restoration.

The project he's working on now is a Scott Bonnar 17" restoration and he was repainting the framework in the Scott Bonnar Green.

The $50 (non-starting) Victa edger I mentioned in another thread actually runs well. All I had to do was to drain the old fuel out, put a new spark plug in and filled it up with some fresh fuel. (25:1)

The green edger is a 3 or 4 yr old locally made Pionex which has had very little use and is like new. It's so easy to use and maneuver and runs smoooth.
I'll probably just alternate between the two edgers every time I mow the lawn so that neither of them is just sitting idle in the shed.

The new Pionex edgers are these ones,
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/malaga/lawn-mowers/lawn-edger/1028313998
but I like mine better with a sturdy triangular frame and a single wheel at the front which makes it a bit easier to go around curves.

cheers.
smile

Last edited by Phantoma; 06/10/13 11:05 PM. Reason: forgot something