Hoping to give it a run soon, but I am renovating the mower deck - I found a lot of rust under the layer of grass pulp that I never cleaned off. So I've wire-brushed the underside, given it phosphoric acid, and will give it a coat of epoxy enamel and then bitumen paint. Everything should be tip-top then.
You know, a really good part of this forum is that all the enthusiasm encourages a lot more attention to all this equipment.
