OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Rare Finds & Donations Victa Lightweight & Compact: What a score!

Hi all up here in sunning Brisbane and called into a friend I have here,and found my Lightweight and Compact.A little sad but they are certainly usable and re-storable.







The red catcher is new.Just has one crack as it was sitting on a shelf and fell off.More pictures will be added when I get it home.

No they'll be with us when we call and see you.Not sure when we will get there.We are staying in Brisbane tonight and heading off on Friday.We will can in on the way back.Looking forward to seeing the Auto Drive.So what do you think of my little guys?

No I wasn't going there.Don't know how I got that wrong.Was going to Johno123's and did.I guess you didn't have anything for me.Mind you if we had of had more time (or not been so earlier in the morning) I would have liked to.Just to do the meet thing.Orh well maybe next time I'm up that way.

Seeing as how you have the spares and that extra green catcher, you should add a fairlight 400 to the collection. Just happen to have one in my shed here that owes me stuff all.

Ive got a catcher for it but its sad, real sad. Would actually be a good one to use so the others say well clear of damage.

Could you put up a picture so I could have a look see?

Is that the electric one?

Its one of the 2 electric catcher ones, I'll have a dig around and try to get you some pictures.

I beleive it uses the same catcher, I dont know how different the base is, but they seem to be very similar.

UPDATE:
Heres one


Its on ebay.

Here it is.






Will see if i remember to get a pic of the catcher i picked up in hard rubbish tomorrow.

The mower is buried under stuff up the back shed so it wont see daylight again for a while. I never got around to testing it either.


I think from a previous thread/discussion between ty and myself we worked out that the bases are different castings.


I was thinking of putting the electric motor onto an 18" frame at one stage.

I have seen a few of them come and go on eBay. Generally not too expensive. Usually cheap as chips without the catcher.

Therew was also an electric utility, the 460, I'll pop it up in the photo gallery, to keep this thread on topic.

I don't think I have ever seen an all white one.

There's a few of them around, however I do believe the Fairlight 400 is a bit trickier to get than the regular green 400.

They are a strange looking thing.It's like there trying to look like a petrol engine

I have always thought the regular 400 looks like an electic VC-160

See that's what I mean looks like a petrol engine

I would get it out and investigate but..............

Well perhaps tomorrow i will take a picture that will tell the thousand words.

Could you maybe pull the top (cowl) of? As I would really like to see what the motor looks like.

Found this one on the computer, its a bit fuzzy. Its not current, its worse now.

Might be a while before i can get to it.



Orange catcher, theres a black one behind it. Under that catcher are some motorbike tyres, under those tyres is the mower in question.

[Censored] that's clean compared to my shed.I wish my shed was that clean.

Thats the shed with the fixed serviced and ready to sell mowers in it.

The mess is elsewhere.


Ive got some ideas for being a bit more 'mower tidy' will see how it goes and will be sure to put up pics.

Hi Bob don't suppose you have any mufflers for lightweights and compacts in there somewhere?Actually it looks like I may also need to find another engine.As the orange compact pictured at top.Has the muffler missing and you can see how scored the bore and piston is.You can also put your finger in there,it doesn't real good at all.I have 2 lightweights and 1 compact now.I was hoping to restore all and then sell one of the lightweights,but now it's looking like I will have to wreck a lightweight and use the engine on the compact.Not happy about that.