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I put this mower together and my grandson has put it back to work and he spruced it up a bit. This is a high arch and fitted with a Rover catcher, works very well






Note the tyres now have tread, a little trick I do on the lathe, I hate the look of worn out tyres, makes them look tired

Good idea on the tyres makes a big difference in the overall appearance looks the goods

WOW!!
I Love the job you did on refreshing the tyres.
I won't comment any further.

Refreshing the tyres takes about one minute to do and is certainly worth the effort

Looking good there...almost the same colour as my ex old 74 HQ 308 2Dr Monaro...

It needs some GT stripes on it mate.

Do you refinish the sides too? So once you mount it on the lathe and get it t turning, what implements do you use to re establish the grooves and reshape the edge of the wheel?
Amazingly effective.

I usually don't worry about the sides unless there is a need to. Pretty primitive way I do it in the lathe, I use a 4 inch grinder with a 3mm cut off wheel, hold it in my hand and just put 3 slots in the tyre, depending on what I think will look ok. Depth is just a guess as I go, if it looks ok that will do. Just gives them that freshen up

norm love your mower great job
what swing your lathe do can you do car tyres
my car tyres nearly unroad worthy can you do car tyres cut new tread

Sorry freebird, I haven't worked out how to do the crosshatch patern on car tyres yet, still working on that