This is sort of serious and also funny I think.
Many years ago when I was younger I probably over tightened the spark plug once too many times on my old Victa Commando which I have pictured as my avatar, which me and my dad picked up from the local Myer store back in 1982. I have been mowing with this mower since I was a kid and I still use it to this day. They just don't make them like they used to anymore!
Anyway I tightened the spark plug up and it was sort of threaded a bit and didn't tighten up like it should have, I thought ah she'll be right and started it up and it ran ok for about a minute.
When I used the throttle lever to kill the ignition to stop the mower, after a couple of seconds there was an almighty and very loud "BOOM".
I thought what the hell just happened! I looked down and the spark plug wire was just hanging near where the spark plug used to be!
The spark plug had shot out of the head with an almighty explosion and I looked around my yard in the direction it may have travelled but I never found that spark plug...LOL
So I guess the lesson learnt here is always make sure your spark plug has a good thread and it's secured properly. If you have a stripped thread and the spark plug isn't screwed in securely it can be quite dangerous as what happened to me. I think I was lucky that I was standing behind the mower when it exploded and not on the spark plug side!
Last edited by Converse; 13/01/19 12:24 PM.
