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I most certainly have a personal attachment to my mower, if anyone touches it in my shed, they will certainly know about it.

I will ring up my mower shop this afternoon and see if he can do it and for how much.

Well I've only got bad news, the Local Mower Shop has closed down to my displease and the other mower shop in my area wants to charge me $82.50, for parts and labour, I asked them if the price would change if the mower was already apart and I just got a blank NO. It looks like I will have to buy the helicoil's myself.

The only other option I can think of is trying a bike shop or something alike and seeing if they will fix threads.

Oh bugger. Can't really offer much in the way of suggestions here. The coil insert kits average around $50 for each thread size, in the smaller sizes we're looking at here, last time I looked.

In former times, many areas had a semi-retired old bloke or two [machinist/toolmaker or mechanic], who would do such small jobs cheaply, and had the gear to do so. They were usually hard to find though, as they didn't advertise, and word-of-mouth was the only way.

My motorcycle mechanic operates like that; he just has a single line in the Yellow Pages, and even when you find his place [outside of town], there's no signage visible from the dirt road he lives on. There are one or two local car mechanics [very good ones] that work the same way. More than a few visiting city types have been gobsmacked to see the gear in his shed though. The full nine yards for bike work, including a Dynojet dynamometer with exhaust gas oxygen monitoring!

My feelings exactly. I looked at a person like that who advertised on the internet, he seemed like a nice guy and knew what he was talking about but he wanted to charge me $200.

The problem there, is that the remaining older blokes in that field often don't want to know about computers. They have no worries keeping busy at what they want to do, without learning a whole new field.

I know a couple around here like that. Perfectionists in what they do. No websites or anything; e-mail at most!

Hi I'm back, with good and bad news. The good news is that I don't need to repair the pull start just yet, as I can just hold it on their to start it. The bad news is that it starts but runs very rough. It does cut grass. I will try and upload a video of how it runs in a few moments.

Here is the video