It's a shame most of the population are so anti the 'hassle' of mixing oil. A next door neighbor (renter) a couple of years ago had a Victa 2 stroke powertorque. The amount of lawn meant a 2 minute mow with an 18 inch Victa. Just before he moved out, he told me he 'usually' used oil in the mix - I guess it never got hot enough to seize. The oil he used to put in was what ever his missus had used in cooking the previous week - canola, vege or olive oil.
Mowerfreak, I got a similar 125 engined edger a couple of months ago. Runs great and makes plenty of noise with the bun muffler. Just picked up another 125 zip start from the tip yesterday - it was seized. Some ATF and oil, and a few hours to soak, it turns over great, pretty good for $5. piston not scratched and rings freely move. It has a black zip starter on it - like the one used on the silver VC 160 Autodrives - and (strangely) the starter pawls don't slip.
