Thanks guys for those kind words.
I have had a bit of a delay thought as I have made a big mistake.
As I was trying to do them up as original as possible,in my haste I polished two twin engines,as I'm restoring the first 500 Twin and the 500 Twin with the updated engine(what I call the series II).So after I had polished the two engines I then what I went to put them together and realized that the first ever model twin had a completely different engine to all the others.This was due to the problems of the first engine.As even when the mower was returned for a service Victa automatically swapped the engine for the new updated engine.So to find one of the original engines is rare.Now one that I have had a busted piston (I think I put photos up already)which scored the bore.So in my haste I selected another engine that turned out to be a later updated engine from 1977.Not the first engine,from what I have found is that the first engine numbers would start as 12475 after that they were all the updated engines.So now I have to polish the only other first version of the Twin engine that I have,this one is certainly taking some time to clean as it was very very bad,but I am winning.
So sorry to seem quite but I have been trying to get this done at the moment.
Also my air compressor motor died as well,but that's another story.
