You can often find plenty of Rover mowers with non worn out wheels on them because the Briggs has given up the ghost, cut the spindles off and weld them onto your Victa. A question to ask yourself, how many of these over 60 year old neglected Victas are pulled out of the back of a shed, bit of a carby clean and they fire straight up and capable of being put straight back to work. You don't see too many 4 strokes capable of that
For sure. The old 125's are really hard to kill - it usually takes a real gutful of water or dirt to do it.
Norm, the older Victa 18's up to ~1960 ran 1/2" diameter stub axles. It was only after that, that they went to the 9/16" size.
A few years back now, I wanted to use some used Victa wheels I had on hand, for an oxy bottle trolley I was building. So the solution for axles was a couple of 9/16" high tensile bolts, and welding of 2 nuts onto each side of the frame to screw them into... I also built a trolley for a 60L oil drum based on a Victa axle and wheels.
