OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions on Edgers Two Stroke Edgers victa tac

my father bought a victa tac in the early 1980s im in the process of getting it running and some cosmetic tidying up after more then 6 years of sitting for some reason in the old boys wisdom he welded the tilt control handle to the plate so it wont tilt anymore problem is he hacked the plate so its not a case of braking the welds and it will work again are the plates available new ?????? does anyone here know where to get one etc thanks in advance

well here it is degreased washed out the petrol tank with clean fuel fixed the ht lead replaced the spark plug and boot and she fired to life at the 1st pull have to get one more new wheel for the front its a shame you cannot get the original orange hub caps any more so ill have to plastic paint them???? a new fuel line as it weeps at if not ill do the carby seals etc new blade and blade cover and try and get bracket for the tilt then ill strip it and do a resto

while you cant get the orange hubcaps new, some of us might have some very good second hand ones, I have a tub of hubcaos here I will look through tomorrow.

thanks that would be great hopefully you ave 3 of em

Hi ir_baboon_73, and a warm welcome to the forum. It's always nice to welcome a new Victa Tilt-A- Cut owner to ODK.
As a TAC owner myself, I can understand your predicament with the "tilt plate" at the left-hand rear of your machine...

As far as I know, this plate is not available as a spare part any longer for this particular model...but, as an exercise, if Mr McKay, who has vast experience with Victa TAC's, could help out here, I will remove mine...take some pics of it, with dimensions, and post here....mine is an earlier machine, Mr McKay can tell us whether they changed during the production run....or remained the same.

Can you release the handle from the welds?....Don't worry about the plate...can we save the handle?

Once again, to ODK.

yes i saved the handle for some reason the oldboy hacked the notches off the bracket from my research the plates look to be the same i saw one on a later model it said was a 2007 model???? and it looked to be the same

Just bear with us a while, we will be able to sort it out for you, I will do some research...

I have most of the range of tilt a cuts made, I do have one parts one I'll have a look at when I finish work, I was going to restore it but already have 8, only so many you can use!!!

Thanks a million Joe, that would be great if you have one to spare...

The 'segment plate' is still available for the later PowerTorque TAC, Model TAC201. The ODK Shop has it HERE

Joe will be able to find out if it's the same as on the earlier full-crank engine TAC.

A 2000-era Victa parts list that includes the TAC201 can be downloaded [1.8MB PDF] from HERE
The TAC Info is on page 44

The tilt segment is in good order, has a little surface rust, nothing a little wire brushing and silver paint wouldn't fix.

I have just had a exceptional set of red hibcaps come in on a trade in.

PM me for a price if your keen

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