Hi All,
I ended up contacting Jason, who posted a few years ago on a thread
here His father in law still makes these catchers in Brisbane for $160.
The catcher is slightly different to the pictures in those old posts (I think the design has improved)...I'll take some close-up photos tomorrow of the 20 inch catcher, because it's still at home, but the sides are straight and not pressed as you are asking. It's certainly a heavy duty catcher and a bit thicker and heavier than the original.
I ended up using a flap sander attachment on a grinder and that has worked a treat on the bad rusting. I'm still going to paint some rust converter on the hard to reach places though. There's no point cutting corners now. I'm really hoping that I get enough spare time next week to at least have most of the parts painted in primer by the weekend. Yet to lock in an engineer to sharpen the reel and bed knife...
All of my nuts and bolts that I ordered from Outdoorking arrived last week. I was unimpressed with my set of chain case screws though - they are totally different! I'm fairly obsessive compulsive when it comes to the 'look' of things, so I can't have 2 totally different chain case screws on a restored mower. I guess I'll have to contact the online store and request another is sent out. I purchased 4 (for 2 mowers) and 3 are the dome style and one is a flat head. Strange.
