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Plenty of 2 strokes to convert tired 4 strokes with in future.

Isn't that simple Mowerfreak, plenty of good Rover/Masport/MTD/Talon etc bases with good wheels, (never get a chance for them to wear out before the Briggs spit the dummy) but because the Victa 2 strokes run east/west the height adjuster bar on the left hand side fouls on the Victa head. Very hard to find good Victa wheels on the 2 strokes, but I always find good wheels on Victas that were fitted with 4 stroke motors

Hi Gadge, I've just got home from picking up the Victa 24 you spotted (thanks for that) but do you have any idea where all the smoke is coming from all the way up the Valley. From Pakenham it was smokey all the way to Morwell and obviously beyond. They have shut down Hazelwood but the valley is still full of smoke. On the way back on this side of Pakenham the blue smoke turned to brown smog, so obviously not much wind to blow it away but there is a huge amount of smoke in the Valley coming from somewhere

G'day Norm,
Glad to see that the Super 24 will have another life.

The smoke down this way is all from Dept of Changing Names fuel reduction burns, up in the hills to the north. With the late hot weather through March, they've only just been able to get these rolling, so they're going a bit flat out.

The visible stack plumes from the power stations here are essentially condensing water vapour - there aren't normally any 'smoke' particles from incomplete combustion, or significant amounts of ash particles - those are nearly all dropped out in the electrostatic precipitators, before the flue gas gets to the bottom of the stack.

So what exits the stack is water vapour + 'permanent gases' - mostly N2 and CO2, with a little NOx and a trace of SO2.

The only time that actual 'smoke' occurs is when a station has to fire up a boiler from cold, after maintenance shuts etc. So they make very sure they do that in the dark of night - there's no such thing as black smoke on a dark night, y'know.

Hi Gadge, always made me chuckle anytime somebody was having a whinge about the power stations and they would have a reporter standing with the 2 cooling towers in the background choofing out steam. How can you present an argument showing a row of chimneys with nothing visible coming out of them