G'day Tyler and Mowerfreak,
Hey you know what Tyler, I now check them to see if they are the early or late type...lol
I just checked out the one that you posted from Gumtree, and it's the later style you can see the hole in the deck at the front, also the wheels! lol
Another thing I just noticed on that later style FC Commando on Gumtree, the carby end cap doesn't have the idle screw on the end, it's one of those caps where it's blanked off. On my hard rubbish find FC Commando, it also has a filthy looking carby with that same end cap with no idle screw which is blanked off. I am starting to think that maybe these last FC machines that were made didn't have the idle screw fitted as the earlier machines did? Who knows I am only going by the one machine I have here and also the one for sale on Gumtree, they seem to both have the same style end cap with no idle screw in the end.
It's a weird looking end cap, it doesn't look like the one's fitted to the powertorque engines, which look like it's got a plug on the end, these look like the idle screw end caps did, but the hole is filled in where the screw used to be.
I have 2 of those later style FC Commando's here, and one has the idle screw on the carby and one doesn't. One must be slightly earlier than the other. I tell ya what it feels weird having an old full crank machine without an idle screw on the carby!
Also I checked out where the one on Gumtree is located and it's not down the road like the other one was, otherwise who knows I could start to have an army of Commando's here! lol hang on I think there already is!
Still a good looking tough mower though! Cheers!
