OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Reel-Type Mowers SB Solid deck 14" restoration.

Wow !!

How did you get those pressings into the sides ? Honestly if you had a way of fast tracking these I'm sure you could sell quite a few on here alone yet on the open market.

Cheers,
BB.

If he hand-formed them [as seems likely], the man surely has some serious sheetmetal skills. Very impressive!

Hand forming and the help of a cold stretcher and a beading tool.

Completed project (less catcher, a mate who is helping me out still had some work to do). Already gone to a new home. What's next? 20", 17" or another 14".

Hi Scott,

Wow ! what a fantastic result !!!

Always prefer the brass parts to be exposed opposed to being painted, great highlight indeed.

Can I ask what exact paint did you use on the engine ?

also did you deliberately deviate away from the "45" decal on the chain case as I noticed you used the catcher decal on the chaincase.

Also I do prefer the reel painted in red as you've done (I always do them in red myself)opposed to orange as they were done originally.

Once again congratulations on a great result and in the short time frame that you've done this in you could set up a SB production line reconditioning plant !





Cheers,
BB.

PS. You've certainly served your Apprenticeship and now that you're qualified you can progress straight to a 20 inch Model 45.

Hi BB,

The decal was an oversight when purchasing the off eBay, but I decided it looked fine and went with it.

The engine paint is the same British paints silver we were talking about earlier in this thread, it looked like chrome paint. I found that applying acrylic clear over the silver (after decals were applied) knocked the impact of the paint back a few steps and I think it looks a lot better.

Hi Scott,

Well that explains it for me as I thought the paint on the engine was far closer to what it should be than how it appeared in that early shot.

One thing many users find that they fall in to is the trap of using non engine based paints where it is exposed to fuel and extreme heat which quickly breaks the paint down, especially around the fuel tank area where it gets easily broken down by spilt petrol.

Cheers,
BB.