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I'm happy with the way the seat has turned out

That's a great looking seat. Did you recover that yourself?

Yes Slash I covered it myself, got a couple of little faults but best I could do, pretty happy with it. Missus had the vinyl, pinchweld cost $6 and a can of spray glue $10. The cheapest mower seats cost $120 and makes the whole thing uneconomic

Ticks all the boxes then. Did it yourself. Great finish. Minimal outlay. Gotta be happy.

Thanks Slash, mower is pretty much finished now, I still have to put a coat of 2 pak clear on the bodywork, that will depend on the weather over the next few days. I'll get a couple of pics tomorrow and post them up

I think it turned out ok compared to how it started out

Just as a guess I have probably spent about 80 hours on it, there is no way this can be classed as"being of sound mind and body", but no hobby is.

Mate that's a great job. You'll go broke working like that.

Slash, I think my charge out rate is probably somewhere between 50cents and $1 per hour, not sure if that covers my shed lighting bill and tools but at the end of the day somebody ends up with a good mower. The 80 hours I said I spent on it was on the conservative side I would say. Things like getting the rear wheels off and the axle out can take a day or more and then I can start making bearing housings and that sort of thing.Shafts that have worn down need repairing and where I can I get rid of the imperial bearings and fit metric because imperial bearings are twice the price of the metric. I have now started on this Ariens and just repairing the steering is a major project. They all seem to take me about a month to get them sorted. Onwards and upwards and keep smiling